books by subject
British Historical Biographies 1701-1900

What the Butler Winked at: Being the Life and Adventures of Eric Horne (Butler)

Palmerston: The People's Darling

Elizabeth Fry

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

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

Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought

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

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

Lord Melbourne, 1779-1848

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

Autobiography (Penguin Classics)

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

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

Journal of the Waterloo Campaign: 1 (Napoleonic library)

Coleridge: Early Visions

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

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

Imperial Marriage: An Edwardian War and Peace

William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner

Strindberg and Autobiography: Writing and Reading a Life: No 1 (Series A: Scandinavian Literary History and Criticism)

Fatal Evidence: Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor & the Dawn of Forensic Science

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

The Pinecone

Above and Under Hatches: The Recollections of James Anthony Gardner (Sailors' Tales)

Macaulay: Britain’s Liberal Imperialist

Nelsonian Reminiscences (Sailors' Tales) (Sailors' Tales S.)

British Admirals of the Napoleonic Wars: Contemporaries of Nelson

Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero

Palmerston: 'The People's Darling'
