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British Historical Biographies 1701-1900

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Nelson: The Man and the Legend

By Coleman, Terry

Palmerston: 'The People's Darling'

By Chambers, James

Blake

By Ackroyd, Peter

The Pinecone

By Uglow, Jenny

Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero

By Adams, Max

British Admirals of the Napoleonic Wars: Contemporaries of Nelson

By Fevre, Peter Le

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

By Parsons, George Samuel

Macaulay: Britain’s Liberal Imperialist

By Masani, Zareer

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

By Gardner, James Anthony, Hamilton, Sir R.V., Laughton, Sir John Knox

Marshall Hall: A Law unto Himself

By Sally Smith, Clive Anderson

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

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

By Mackesy, Dr Piers, Piers

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

Gladstone Paper (LONGMAN HISTORY IN DEPTH)

By Culpin, Chris, Tweedie, Pat

Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat

By Oliver Soden

Wren (World of Art S.)

By Whinney, Margaret

Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

By R. Angus Buchanan

How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815

By Horne, Alistair

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

By Eric Horne

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

By Monk, Ray

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