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Historical Biography
Biographies of pre-20th century characters like Nelson, Napoleon to Buddha or Ghengis Khan.
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| FRANK HARRIS Book Number: 56215 |
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First published in 1909 as 'The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life Story' this is a lively biography of England's and arguably the world's greatest playwright and poet by an ardent admirer. A pro...
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| ELIZABETH GASKELL Book Number: 56221 |
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In devoting two years of her own life to 'The Life of Charlotte Brontë', Elizabeth Gaskell wrote what with good reason has been held up as ‘the first successful biography of a woman by a woman’. Ch...
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| MATHILDE BLIND Book Number: 56224 |
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This is the first full-length biography of George Eliot, published just three years after her death, by a freethinking German-Jewish émigré and proto-feminist: the first to tackle the Lewes relatio...
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| WASHINGTON IRVING Book Number: 56597 |
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According to Mohammed, the one true religion was revealed to five great prophets before him - Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. But each time their message was ignored and people chose to worsh...
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| LISA HILTON Book Number: 81767 |
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Elizabeth I is perhaps the Queen who fascinates and enthrals us the most. We picture her as a strong woman in her splendid, richly-embroidered gowns with a large lace ruff around her neck, her red ...
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| MICHAEL SOMMER Book Number: 82575 |
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From Augustus to Romulus Augustulus, 80 quotations from ancient commentators, fact boxes, maps and more, seven thematic chapters cover foundation, power and imperial building projects. How did a m...
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| PETER STOTHARD Book Number: 83121 |
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During the 2010 Arab Spring, Sir Peter Stothard's memoir on discovering Cleopatra was disturbed by the intense conflict occurring around the Middle East and revolution in Egypt. This personal recol...
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| BARBARA WHITE Book Number: 83345 |
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Fanny was a beautiful Georgian prostitute of the 1750s, especially admired for her bosoms 'those fair hemispheres, those orbs of more than snowy whiteness, which seemed to pant for release from irk...
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| CATRINE CLAY Book Number: 83974 |
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Clever, attractive and wealthy, one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland, when aged only 17, Emma met and fell in love with Carl Jung, a brilliant but penniless doctor working in a lunatic asylu...
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| JOHN SPIKE Book Number: 83878 |
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Renowned for his sublime painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's talent showed at an early age. Initially taught by Ghirlandaio, to whom he was apprenticed at the age of 13, i...
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| WENDY MOORE Book Number: 84305 |
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Sub-titled 'The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound' we are taken back to the early 1800s when medicine was a brutal business, operations performed without anaesthesia and conventio...
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| LEONIE FRIEDA Book Number: 84341 |
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Even today, 15th century Italy, that dangerous and exhilarating place, still glitters. Many of the great sculptures, churches, frescoes adorned with the faces of their patrons remain familiar toda...
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| MARK MCDONALD Book Number: 84344 |
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A big beautiful British Library and British Museum UK first edition 2005 paperback with 20 colour and 178 black and white woodcut illustrations, this beautiful book catalogues 110 of the most impor...
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| ELIZABETH FOYSTER Book Number: 84430 |
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Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England. Was he mad or bad? The 3rd Earl of Portsmouth, John Charles Wallop, was a wealthy aristocrat, who for the first 50 years of his life mixed with t...
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| STEPHEN TAYLOR Book Number: 84502 |
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Right to the last months of her life, Lady Anne Barnard stayed tied to her desk in London's Berkeley Square. Banked around her was one of the most formidable collections of papers compiled by any ...
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| MARIAMNA DAVYDOFF Book Number: 83078 |
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In 1983 Olga Davydoff Dax was travelling in the US and decided to pay a visit to a cousin in Long Island. Her mother was Mariamna Davydoff who, on her death in 1961, left her three albums of waterc...
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| JOHN GUY Book Number: 85152 |
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She had the body of a woman, and the heart of a lion. Elizabeth I, the fierce Queen of England, is an example of Britain's iconic monarchs; she is a queen who wielded her power, particularly after ...
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| SHELLEY EMLING Book Number: 85154 |
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Sub-titled 'The Brief, Astonishing Life of St Catherine of Siena', here is the first modern, secular biography of Italy's answer to Joan of Arc. Only one of two patron saints of Italy, the other b...
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| TREVOR DANCE Book Number: 85006 |
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Glamorous hardbound first edition with dozens of full page artworks and plates of etchings, pen and ink drawings, a detail from The Town of Fantasy, lithographs on vellum, this book is the first mo...
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| ANNA KEAY Book Number: 84922 |
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The son of Charles II by his first mistress, the infamous courtesan Lucy Walter, James, Duke of Monmouth (as he would become) was born into a turbulent age. Between his conception and birth in 1649...
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| DEREK WILSON Book Number: 85225 |
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Was England's most famous king 'a fool, a liar and a damnable rotten worm?' Henry VIII changed the course of English life more than any monarch since the Norman Conquest. In the portraits of Holb...
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| LINDA COLLEY Book Number: 84979 |
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Voted one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year here is a grand tale of physical hardiness and surprising moral choices. In this remarkable reconstruction of an 18th century woman's ext...
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| WILLIAM MONTER Book Number: 84982 |
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Women have traditionally exercised 'soft power', networking and applying anonymous pressure. This book challenges the relegation of women's influence to the boudoir by investigating the lives and ...
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| NANCY GOLDSTONE Book Number: 85035 |
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Written on the 600th anniversary of Joan of Arc's birth, Nancy Goldstone weaves an incredible history of the transcendent Joan of Arc and the powerful Yolande of Aragon, Queen of Sicily: powerful w...
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| RICHARD TOMLINSON Book Number: 85420 |
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The legendary W.G. Grace was born into a Victorian world where the all-powerful MCC divided cricketers into Gentlemen and Players, and as the son of a Bristol doctor W.G. did not quite qualify as a...
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| SALLY PHIPPS Book Number: 85435 |
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An excellent biography of Anglo-Irish writer Molly Keane, whose childhood was spent in a 'big house', amongst the hunting and shooting fraternity. Born to Agnes and Walter Skrine in 1904, in Co. Ki...
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| ANTHONY HOLDEN Book Number: 85442 |
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Leigh Hunt, critic, poet, a complex man who demanded perfection, regularly chastised his sweetheart Marianne because her letters to him were too short, poorly written, full of ink blots and scratch...
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| MARIA PERRY Book Number: 85294 |
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Sub-titled 'The Tumultuous Lives of Henry VIII's Sisters - Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France'. Aged just 13, Margaret became Queen of Scotland. She was taken aback to find her dower castle a...
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| ROBIN LANE FOX Book Number: 85053 |
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A magisterial and beautifully written authoritative portrait of this colossal figure at his most thoughtful, vulnerable and profound, written by the Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford. 'You ar...
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| JENNY WORMALD Book Number: 85627 |
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The author presented the BBC programme 'Bloody Queens' and had also featured in a Timewatch episode about Mary Queen of Scots in 1987, commemorating the 400th anniversary of her execution. The fir...
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