Social & Urban History Biographies

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

By Jonathan Bate

After the War was Over

By Michael Foreman

Winged Victory: A Last Look Back - The Personal Reflections of Two Royal Air Force Leaders

By J. E. Johnson, Laddie Lucas

The Perfect English Spy: Sir Dick White and the Secret War, 1935-90

By Bower, Tom

Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

By Noah Isenberg, Billy Wilder, Shelley Frisch

Astride the Wall: A Memoir, 1913-45

By Ursula Wyndham

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XVII

By Ron Johnston FBA (Professor of Geography, Professor of Geography, University of Bristol)

First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-torn Skies above Britain

By Wellum, Geoffrey

Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender

By Linda McDougall

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial

By Deborah E. Lipstadt

Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship

By Frances Woodsford

William Blake vs the World

By John Higgs

Peter the Great

By Stephen J. Lee

O My America!: Second Acts in a New World

By Sara Wheeler

Winston Churchill

By Harriet Castor

Diary of an Occupation

By Baron Max Von Aufsess, Kathleen Nowlan

More Tales from The Island Nurse

By mary macleod

Nicholas and Alexandra

By Robert K. Massie

How the World Made the West

By Josephine Quinn

Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

By Neil Sheehan

The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast

By Goalhanger Podcasts, Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook (Historian)

The Vicar of Baghdad: Fighting for Peace in the Middle East

By Andrew White

In Search of the Red Slave

By Mike Parker Pearson, Karen Godden

James Maxton

By William Knox

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937 - 1946

By Robert Skidelsky

Every Girl's Duty: The Diary of a Victorian Debutante

By Alice Catherine Miles, Maggy Parsons

Outcasts' Outcast

By Peter Stanford

Eleanor Roosevelt: V.2

By Blanche Wiesen-Cook

Forgotten Collector, The:Augustus Wollaston Franks of the British: Augustus Wollaston Franks of the British Museum

By David M Wilson

Margery Kempe: and her world (The Medieval World)

By Goodman, A.E.