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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

By French, Patrick

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

By Davies, Hunter

The Yellow On The Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman

By Whyte, Betsy

Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage

By Gyles Brandreth

Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P Taylor

By Kathleen Burk

Cash for Honours

By Andrew Cook

This Birding Life: The Diary of a Lifetime's Hobby

By Stephen Moss

Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk

By Christina Hardyment

Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled

By Heald, Tim

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

The Literary Churchill

By Jonathan Rose

Killing Zone

By Harry McCallion

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War

By David M. Guss

Fighter Aces! the Constable Maxwell Brothers: Fighter Pilots in Two World Wars

By Alex Revell

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

By Paul Addison (University of Edinburgh), Harriet Jones (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

The Course of my Life: The Autobiography of Edward Heath

By Heath, Edward, Edward Heath, Sir

Princess Victoria Melita: Grand Duchess Cyril of Russia, 1876-1936 (History/20th Century History)

By Van der Kiste, John

The Confusion of Command: The Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow 1914 -1915

By Dan Snow, Mark Pottle

The Queen at 90: Royal Album

By Sam Wilkinson

The Aran Islands (Oxford Paperbacks)

By J. M. Synge, Robin Skelton

Clementine Churchill

By Soames, Mary

Churchill's Cigar: A Lifelong Love Affair Through War and Peace

By Stephen McGinty

Mission to Tashkent

By Bailey, F. M., Hopkirk, Peter

Finding Tipperary Mary

By Phyllis Whitsell

Dear Bill: W.F. Deedes Reports

By Deedes, W. F.

New British Philosophy: The Interviews

By BAGGINI, Julian

Lord Hailsham: A Life

By Lewis, Geoffrey

World War II: The Autobiography: 200 First-Hand Accounts from WWII (Brief Histories)

By Jon E. Lewis