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Historical Biographies 1701-1900

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Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

Shackleton (A Ladybird Expert Book)

By Ben Saunders

Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Lark Rise; Over to Candleford; Candleford Green (Modern Classics)

By Thompson, Flora, Massingham, H., Flora Thompson, Adobe

A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

By Kate Colquhoun

Simon Bolivar (Simon Bolivar): A Life

By John Lynch

The Herectic: A Study In The Life Of John William Colenso 1814-1883

William Blake vs the World

By John Higgs

The Great Philosophers: Descartes

By John Cottingham

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman

The Girl in Rose: A Musical Affair in Georgian London

By Peter Hobday

The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed

By Sandra Hempel

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave

By Mary Prince, Sara Salih

Jennie Churchill

By Anne Sebba

Who's Who in Late Hanoverian Britain, 1789-1837

By G.R.R. Treasure

George Eliot: The Last Victorian

By Hughes, Kathryn

Wellington: The Iron Duke

By Richard Holmes

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

By Popper, Sir Karl

Travels with Queen Victoria

By Sarah Ferguson, Duchess Of York, Benita Stoney, Robin Matthews

Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

By Angus Buchanan

Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat

By Oliver Soden

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal

The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett

By Richard Ingrams

John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice

By Thomas Pogge (Department of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University), Michelle Kosch

How Can One Sell the Air?

By Chief Seattle, Eli Gifford, R. Michael Cook

Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

By Nicolaas A. Rupke

Felix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction

By Gary Genosko

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

By Linda Colley

The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830: Volume Five

By J. Labbe