British Historical Social & Urban History Biographies

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XVII

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

Astride the Wall: A Memoir, 1913-45

By Ursula Wyndham

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

By Bower, Tom

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

By Sarah Ogilvie

One Step Beyond (hb)

By Moon, Chris

Diaries of a Cabinet Minister: Selections, 1964-70

By Richard Crossman, A. Howard, Anthony Howard

Lewin of Greenwich: The Authorised Biography

By J.R. Hill

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

By Richard Beard

Best and Edwards

By Gordon Burn

Granny Made me an Anarchist

By Stuart Christie

A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L.Rowse

By Richard Lawrence Ollard

Immediate Action

By Andy McNab

The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story

By Jim Bailey

Free Radical: New Century Essays

By Tony Benn

Freedom at Midnight

By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

By David Black

Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain

By David Jeremy

Lincolnshire Women

By John R. Ketteringham

A Tudor Christmas

By Alison Weir, Siobhan Clarke

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become Part of World History

By Linda Colley

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

By Mark Leonard

Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 1901-1910 in Their Own Words

By Max Arthur

Infamous Essex Women

By Dee Gordon

It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different

By Cathy Newman

Goodbye East End

By David Merron

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

By Nicolson, Adam

The Secret Diary of Sarah Thomas: A Victorian Lady, 1860-65

By Sarah Thomas, June R. Lewis

The Real Diana Dors

By Anna Cale

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

By Mark Francis (University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand)

Hopping

By Melanie McGrath