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British Historical Biographies 1701-1900

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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

Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought

By A. Rupert Hall

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

By Rodney Bolt

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

By D.M. Cannell

Elizabeth Fry

By June Rose

Palmerston: The People's Darling

By James Chambers

White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

By Leanda de Lisle

Nelson and His Captains

By Ludovic Kennedy

My Father, Bertrand Russell

By Tait, Katharine

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

By Taylor Coleridge, Samuel

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

By Richard Holmes

Wild Romance: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal

By Chloe Schama

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

By Alexander, Caroline

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

By Urban, Mark

Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

By Nicolaas A. Rupke

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

Dickens's Women: His Great Expectations

By Anne Isba

John Newton: From Disgrace to "Amazing Grace"

By Jonathan Aitken

The Complete Poems

By Thomas Hardy, James Gibson

The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830: Volume Five

By J. Labbe

Travels with Queen Victoria

By Sarah Ferguson, Duchess Of York, Benita Stoney, Robin Matthews

Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

By Angus Buchanan

Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat

By Oliver Soden

The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett

By Richard Ingrams

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become Part of World History

By Linda Colley

Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain

By Robert Harvey