British Historical Social & Urban History Biographies

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

By Hochschild, Adam

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

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

Twelve-month and a Day

By Christopher Rush

Beyond the Gatehouse: The Eccentric Lives of England's Aristocracy

By David Long

Charles Darwin: pocket GIANTS

By Stephen Webster

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By Craig Brown

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

By Max Hastings

Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley

By John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin

Free At Last: The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By DK

Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain

By Robert Winder

A.J. Ayer: A Life

By Ben Rogers

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

By Rose Tremain

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

London In The Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God'

By Jerry White

A Divine Rage: The Careers and Controversies of the Pankhursts

By Martin Pugh

Letters To My Grandchildren

By Tony Benn

Battling Injustice: 16 Women Nobel Peace Laureates

By Supriya Vani

Explore!: Tudors

By Jane Bingham

Chapters of Accidents: A Writer's Memoir

By alexander Baron, Colin Holmes, Nick Baron

Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth

By Huntford, Roland

Shadows of a Princess

By Patrick Jephson

Shadows of a Princess

By Patrick Jephson

Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes

By Fiona MacCarthy

A 1960s Childhood: From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania (Childhood Memories)

By Paul Feeney

Sojourner Truth

By John Malam

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1960s A Series)

By Joan Didion

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

By Konstantin Kisin, Peter Lloyd

War Boy: A Wartime Childhood

By Foreman, Michael

Lincoln

By Andrew Lee