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Historical Biographies 1701-1900

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

By Rodney Bolt

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

By D.M. Cannell

The Grasmere Journals

By Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof

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

By Trevor Burnard

Elizabeth Fry

By June Rose

Palmerston: The People's Darling

By James Chambers

White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

By Leanda de Lisle

Nelson and His Captains

By Ludovic Kennedy

Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

By Jonathan Bate

My Father, Bertrand Russell

By Tait, Katharine

Poems And Prose: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)

By Taylor Coleridge, Samuel

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

Boyle: Between God and Science

By Michael Hunter

Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing

By Mark T. Mitchell

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

By Sarah Thomas, June R. Lewis

How Can One Sell the Air?

By Chief Seattle, Eli Gifford, R. Michael Cook

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

By Linda Colley

Felix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction

By Gary Genosko

Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

By Nicolaas A. Rupke

Shelley: The Pursuit

By Richard Holmes

The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner

By John Keay (Author)

John Aubrey: My Own Life

By Ruth Scurr

Personal Writings

By Ignatius of Loyola, Joseph Munitiz

Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

By Popper, Sir Karl

The Sea Wolf: The Life of Admiral Cochrane

By Ian Grimble