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Historical Biographies 1701-1900

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Palmerston: The People's Darling

By James Chambers

Elizabeth Fry

By June Rose

Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

By Trevor Burnard

The Grasmere Journals

By Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof

George Green, Mathematician and Physicist, 1793-1841: The Background to His Life and Work

By D.M. Cannell

As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson

By Rodney Bolt

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

By Johannes C. Jansen

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martinez

Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought

By A. Rupert Hall

Wellington at Walmer

By Gregory Holyoake

Draw: The Greatest Gunfights of the American West

By James Reasoner

Oscar Wilde: An Exquisite Life

By Stephen Calloway, David Colvin

Whitman the Political Poet

By Betsy Erkkila (Professor of English, Professor of English, Northwestern University)

LACAN (Fontana Modern Masters)

By Bowie

The Bachelor Duke: A Life of William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858

By JAMES LEES-MILNE

William Holmes McGuffey: Schoolmaster of the Nation

By Sullivan, Dolores P.

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

By Holmes, Richard

Lord Melbourne, 1779-1848

By Mitchell, L. G.

Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

By Milton, Giles, Giles Milton

The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell : Volume Two : 1914 - 1944: v. 2

By Russell, Bertrand

The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell : Volume Three : 1944 - 1967: v. 3

By Russell, Bertrand

Conversations with Isaiah Berlin

By Berlin, Isaiah, Jahanbegloo, Ramin

Autobiography (Penguin Classics)

By Robson, John, Mill, John Stuart

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

By Monk, Ray

Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam

By Geaves, Ron

Michael Faraday and The Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place (PBK)

By Thomas, J.M

Journal of the Waterloo Campaign: 1 (Napoleonic library)

By Mercer, General Cavalie, Sir John Fortescue

Management Innovators: The People and Ideas That Have Shaped Modern Business

By Wren, Daniel, Greenwood, Ronald G.

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

By Paranque, Estelle

British Victory in Egypt, 1801: The End of Napoleon's Conquest

By Mackesy, Dr Piers, Piers