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Historical Biographies 1501-1700

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On Time: Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast

By Catherine Blyth

A Foreign Field

By Ben Macintyre

Charles the Second: King of England, Scotland, and Ireland

By Ronald Hutton (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Bristol)

Remembering D-Day: Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes

By Martin Bowman

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

William Tyndale: A Biography

By David Daniell

Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944

By Paddy Ashdown

The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee

By Glyn Parry

Charles V: The World Emperor

By Harald Kleinschmidt

The Genius in My Basement: The Biography of a Happy Man. Alexander Masters

By Masters, Alexander

The Banzai Hunters: The Forgotten Armada of Little Ships That Defeated the Japanese, 1944-45

By Peter Haining

Selection (Oxford English Texts)

By Johnson, Samuel, Hardy, John Philips

Ahmad al-Mansur: The Beginnings of Modern Morocco

By Mercedes Garcia-Arenal

The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil

By Anthony Knivet, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa (University of Cambridge)

Sir Francis Drake: The Construction of a Hero

By Bruce Wathen

Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem (Brexit Trilogy 2)

By Shipman, Tim

Masters of the English Reformation

By Marcus Loane

Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: A WAAF's Diary

By Joan Rice

Amedeo: A True Story of Love and War in Abyssinia

By Sebastian O'Kelly

Here I Stand

By Roland H. Bainton

Nostradamus: The Evidence

By Ian Wilson

The English Civil War

By Purkiss, Diane

Collected Works

By Queen Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel M. Mueller, Mary Beth Rose

The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation

By Roy Hattersley

Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

By Anna Beer

The Verneys

By A Tinniswood

The Way We Were: Remembering Diana

By Paul Burrell

Roundhead General: Campaigns of Sir William Waller

By John Adair

Court Lady and Country Wife: Royal Privilege and Civil War: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Centurn England

By Lita Rose Betcherman (University of Toronto, Canada)

Oliver Cromwell: King in All But Name, 1653-58

By Roy Sherwood