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British Historical Biographies from 1901 Onwards

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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 Pankhursts

By Pugh, Martin

Royal Family (Unseen Archives)

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth...The Diamond Jubilee

By Daily Mail

Baldwin

By Jenkins, Roy

Winston and Clementine: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Churchills

By Hough, Richard Alexander

The King's Speech

By Logue and Conradi, Conradi, Peter, Mark Logue, Peter Conradi

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

By Barbara Fox

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

Churchill

By Ashley Jackson

Queen Elizabeth II

By Ammonite Press

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

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

By Pinion, F B

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

By Winters, Dick, Kingseed, Cole C

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

By Malcolm Brown

The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon – Duchess of Marlborough

By Vickers, Hugo

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

By Larkin, Philip, Thwaite, Anthony