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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

Jennie Churchill

By Anne Sebba

Who's Who in Late Hanoverian Britain, 1789-1837

By G.R.R. Treasure

Wellington: The Iron Duke

By Richard Holmes

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

The Shakespeare Companion

By Rhiannon Guy

Faraday

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

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

Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

By Nicolaas A. Rupke

Boyle: Between God and Science

By Michael Hunter

Shelley: The Pursuit

By Richard Holmes

John Aubrey: My Own Life

By Ruth Scurr