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)

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)

Mary Warnock: A Memoir - People and Places

By Mary Warnock

Boudicca And The Ancient Britons

By Watson, Lucilla

The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince: from contemporary letters, diaries and chronicles, including Chandos Herald's Life of the Black Prince

By Richard Barber

Meister Eckhart , Vol. 2: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense

By Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn, Houston Smith

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

Biographic: Churchill

By R Wiles

Black Stories Matter: Brave Leaders and Activists

By J.P. Miller

Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Madhouse

By Martha Long

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

An Autobiography

By Edwin Muir, P.H. Butter

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603

By Mr Derek Wilson

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song

By Paul Howard

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us

By Erin Moore, Lynne Truss

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

Outcasts' Outcast

By Peter Stanford

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

By Violet Bonham Carter, Mark Pottle, Mary Soames

Margery Kempe: and her world (The Medieval World)

By Goodman, A.E.

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

By David M Wilson

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

By Alice Catherine Miles, Maggy Parsons

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937 - 1946

By Robert Skidelsky