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

By Helen Barrell

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

By Robinson, Michael

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

By Hague, WILLIAM

Imperial Marriage: An Edwardian War and Peace

By Hugh Cecil, Mirabel Cecil

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

By Ondaatje, Christopher

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

By Keay, Anna

Coleridge: Early Visions

By Holmes, Richard

Journal of the Waterloo Campaign: 1 (Napoleonic library)

By Mercer, General Cavalie, Sir John Fortescue

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

By Thomas, J.M

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

By Geaves, Ron

Autobiography (Penguin Classics)

By Robson, John, Mill, John Stuart

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

By Milton, Giles, Giles Milton

Lord Melbourne, 1779-1848

By Mitchell, L. G.

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

By Holmes, Richard

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

By JAMES LEES-MILNE

Jennie Churchill

By Anne Sebba

England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton

By Kate Williams

Mill and Liberalism

By Maurice Cowling

The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter

By Lucinda Hawksley

Paupers and Pig Killers: The Diary of William Holland, a Somerset Parson, 1799-1818 (Country Library)

By William Holland

Shackleton (A Ladybird Expert Book)

By Ben Saunders

A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

By Kate Colquhoun

The Herectic: A Study In The Life Of John William Colenso 1814-1883

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman

The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed

By Sandra Hempel

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave

By Mary Prince, Sara Salih

Dickens's Women: His Great Expectations

By Anne Isba

Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy: Count Rumford - The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius

By G. I. Brown

Gale Force 10: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Beaufort

By Nicholas Courtney

Faraday

By G.N. Cantor, David Gooding, Frank James