British Historical Social & Urban History Biographies

Best and Edwards

By Gordon Burn

Sad Little Men: Inside the secretive world that shaped Boris Johnson

By Richard Beard

Lewin of Greenwich: The Authorised Biography

By J.R. Hill

Diaries of a Cabinet Minister: Selections, 1964-70

By Richard Crossman, A. Howard, Anthony Howard

One Step Beyond (hb)

By Moon, Chris

The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary

By Sarah Ogilvie

The Perfect English Spy: Sir Dick White and the Secret War, 1935-90

By Bower, Tom

Astride the Wall: A Memoir, 1913-45

By Ursula Wyndham

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XVII

By Ron Johnston FBA (Professor of Geography, Professor of Geography, University of Bristol)

First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-torn Skies above Britain

By Wellum, Geoffrey

Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender

By Linda McDougall

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial

By Deborah E. Lipstadt

Winston Churchill

By Harriet Castor

Diary of an Occupation

By Baron Max Von Aufsess, Kathleen Nowlan

More Tales from The Island Nurse

By mary macleod

The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast

By Goalhanger Podcasts, Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook (Historian)

James Maxton

By William Knox

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937 - 1946

By Robert Skidelsky

Every Girl's Duty: The Diary of a Victorian Debutante

By Alice Catherine Miles, Maggy Parsons

Improper Pursuits

By Carola Hicks

Outcasts' Outcast

By Peter Stanford

Forgotten Collector, The:Augustus Wollaston Franks of the British: Augustus Wollaston Franks of the British Museum

By David M Wilson

Margery Kempe: and her world (The Medieval World)

By Goodman, A.E.

Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969

By Violet Bonham Carter, Mark Pottle, Mary Soames

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

Small Talk: Memories of an Edwardian Childhood

By Naomi Mitchison

My Battle of Hastings: Chronicle of a Year by the Sea

By Xiaolu Guo

Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Collins Classics)

By Thomas De Quincey

The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown

By Anna Keay

The South Country

By Edward Thomas, Eric Fitch Daglish, Robert Macfarlane, David Inshaw