books by subject

Historical Biographies 1701-1900

Filter by available

Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

By Richard Holmes

Wild Romance: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal

By Chloe Schama

The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder And Survival In The Amazon

By Robert Whitaker

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

By Alexander, Caroline

Sol Plaatje: A life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876-1932

By Brian Willan

The teachers of Gurdjieff

By Lefort, Rafael

The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell

By Urban, Mark

Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush

By Berton, Marion Foster, Pierre Berton

In Search of Shakespeare

By Wood, Michael

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

By Lucy Moore

Karl Marx

By Wheen, Francis

WITTGENSTEIN (Fontana Modern Masters)

By Pears

Brunel: The Man Who Built the World

By Dan Cruickshank, Steven Brindle

Nelson's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Commander

By Jonathan Gosling, Stephanie Jones

Nelson's Women

By Tom Pocock

Churchill: A Life - The Man Behind the Legend

By Martin Gilbert

Charles Waterton, 1782-1865: Conservationist and Traveller

By Julia Blackburn

The Passion of Michel Foucault

By James Miller

Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters

By John Jolliffe

Who's Who in Late Hanoverian Britain

By Geoffrey Treasure

England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton

By Kate Williams

Anton Bruckner a genius emerges

By Thomas, Gordon L

Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography

By John A Hall

Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain

By Robert Harvey

My Dearest, Dearest Albert: Queen Victoria's Life Through Her Letters and Journals

By Karen Dolby

Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World

By Christy Campbell

The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By Timothy Egan

Journey into Africa: The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79)

Mary Warnock: A Memoir - People and Places

By Mary Warnock

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

By Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn, Houston Smith