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British Historical Biographies 1701-1900

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Sindh Revisited: Journey in the Footsteps of Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1842-49, the India Years

By Ondaatje, Christopher

The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell

By Urban, Mark

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

By Alexander, Caroline

Wild Romance: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal

By Chloe Schama

Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

By Richard Holmes

Poems And Prose: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)

By Taylor Coleridge, Samuel

My Father, Bertrand Russell

By Tait, Katharine

Nelson and His Captains

By Ludovic Kennedy

White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

By Leanda de Lisle

Palmerston: The People's Darling

By James Chambers

Elizabeth Fry

By June Rose

George Green, Mathematician and Physicist, 1793-1841: The Background to His Life and Work

By D.M. Cannell

As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson

By Rodney Bolt

Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought

By A. Rupert Hall

The Bachelor Duke: A Life of William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858

By JAMES LEES-MILNE

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

By Holmes, Richard

Lord Melbourne, 1779-1848

By Mitchell, L. G.

Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

By Milton, Giles, Giles Milton

Autobiography (Penguin Classics)

By Robson, John, Mill, John Stuart

Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam

By Geaves, Ron

Michael Faraday and The Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place (PBK)

By Thomas, J.M

Journal of the Waterloo Campaign: 1 (Napoleonic library)

By Mercer, General Cavalie, Sir John Fortescue

Coleridge: Early Visions

By Holmes, Richard

The Restless Republic: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022

By Keay, Anna

British Victory in Egypt, 1801: The End of Napoleon's Conquest

By Mackesy, Dr Piers, Piers

John Cennick: The Forgotten Evangelist: The Story of the First Methodist Lay Preacher Who Became the Apostle of Northern Ireland

By Gary Best

Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham, 1898-1949: Tom Wintringham, 1898-1949, Revised & Updated Edition (Canada Blanch/Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain)

By Purcell, Hugh, Smith, Phyll

Marshall Hall: A Law unto Himself

By Sally Smith, Clive Anderson

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

By Paranque, Estelle

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives

By Hay, Daisy