British Historical Social & Urban History Biographies

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, 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

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie

By Laurie Lee

Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir

By The Rt Hon Frank Field

Hedingham Harvest: Victorian Family Life in Rural England

By Geoffrey Robinson, Ian Niall

Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram: A Nurse's Story From the Streets

By Dot May Dunn

Elizabeth Fry

By June Rose

The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women

By Mo Moulton, West Kent Federation of Women's Institutes

The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession

By Edmund de Waal

The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

By Kelly, Angela, Angela Kelly

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

By Andrew Marr

The Prince (Collins Classics)

By Niccolo Machiavelli

All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart

By Beezy Marsh

Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir

By Jessica Mitford