books by subject
British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

Queen Elizabeth II

Portrait of a Progressive: Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison

Bomber Command The Victoria Cross Raids (Second World War Aviation History)

J.Ramsay Macdonald (Lives of the Left)

Missing Believed Killed: Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service 1939-1952

The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

Gordon Brown: ‘As a psychological profile, an exploration of personal ambition and a study of political obsession driven by religious angst, this biography is gripping’ Daily Telegraph

Ten Dead Men: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike

Churchill's Bomb: A hidden history of Britain's first nuclear weapons programme

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

Asquith

Baldwin

World War II: The Definitive Visual Guide

Alan Ayckbourn (Modern Dramatists)

SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History

As No Other Dare Fail: For Samuel Beckett on His 80th Birthday by His Friends and Admirers

T.E. Lawrence (British Library Historic Lives) (British Library Historic Lives S.)

Baldwin

Winston and Clementine: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Churchills

The King's Speech

When the War Is Over: Far from home, far from family, safe from the war - a true story of two Second World War evacuees

The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman

By Tank into Normandy (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

The Pankhursts

Churchill

Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers

Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street

A T.S.Eliot Companion: Life and Works (Literary Companions)

The Spy Beside the Sea: The Extraordinary Wartime Story Of Dorothy O'grady
