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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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Baldwin

By Jenkins, Roy

Born 1900: A Human History of the Twentieth Century - For Everyone Who Was There

By Davies, Hunter

Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

By French, Patrick

GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency

By Aldrich, Richard

Roger Casement

By Inglis, Brian

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

By Searle, Adrian

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

By Morgan, Kenneth O., Jane

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

By Chorlton, Mr Martyn

J.Ramsay Macdonald (Lives of the Left)

By Morgan, Austen

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

By Hadaway, Stuart

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

By Dunlop, Tessa

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

By Bower, Tom

Ten Dead Men: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike

By Beresford, David

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

By Farmelo, Graham

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

By SOUHAMI, Diana

Asquith

By Koss, Stephen E.

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

By Pinion, F B

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

By Betsy Whyte

By Tank into Normandy (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

By Hills, Stuart

The Pankhursts

By Pugh, Martin

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

By Malcolm Brown

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

By Winters, Dick, Kingseed, Cole C

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

By Larkin, Philip, Thwaite, Anthony

Churchill

By Ashley Jackson

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

By Calder

World War II: The Definitive Visual Guide

By DK

Alan Ayckbourn (Modern Dramatists)

By Billington, Michael

SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History

By David, Saul

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

By Shaw, Jane

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

By Brock, Michael, Eleanor