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Historical Biography
Historical Biography
Biographies of pre-20th century characters like Nelson, Napoleon to Buddha or Ghengis Khan.
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| SALLY KIBBLE Book Number: 89270 |
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For lovers of Suffolk in general and Woodbridge and the Deben Valley in particular, Thomas Churchyard charted Georgian and Victorian scenery still charming us today. Sally Kibble has been inspired...
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| MIKE RENDELL Book Number: 90394 |
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Legal barriers, the lack of education, the prejudices and misconceptions held by men hampered moves towards equality during the Georgian era. Representing women from all walks of life - artists, b...
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| LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Book Number: 89189 |
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The author of Little Women wrote personal letters which provide a raw and honest account of the reality of battlefield medicine during the American Civil War, a war which tore the country and famil...
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| JULIE SARPY Book Number: 90806 |
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Joanna of Flanders, Countess of Montfort and Richmond, Duchess of Brittany was in her time the heroine of Hennebont, the pivotal siege during the first half of the Breton Civil War (1341-1365) that...
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| A. N. WILSON Book Number: 90854 |
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As British biographers go, few can match A.N. Wilson and even fewer when it comes to the Victorian age. Published in the UK in 2017 (this is the US first edition of the same year), this was the fir...
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| CALLUM WILLIAMS Book Number: 90856 |
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This is an education on economics wrapped up in the fascinating history of 20 people who have shaped nations through their philosophy, all written with an engaging but clear tone that draws in both...
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| JULIE WHEELWRIGHT Book Number: 90888 |
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Western culture has a popular tradition of women who dressed as men and joined the military, often immortalised in books or on stage and screen. Julie Wheelwright soon discovered many of these acc...
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| ANDREW MILLER Book Number: 91046 |
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Winner of the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019 this is a 'propulsive, beautifully written investigation into atrocity, guilt and new beginnings.' - Justine Jordan. One rainswept winter's...
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| MO MOULTON Book Number: 91070 |
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Sub-titled 'How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women.' A group biography of the renowned crime novelist and the
Oxford University women who stood at the vanguard of ...
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| ANDREA DI ROBILANT Book Number: 91118 |
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One of the most wrenching and scandalous love stories in all of literary biography, the author finely details the last productive years of Ernest Hemingway in a kaleidoscopic succession of relation...
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| RICHARD O. SMITH Book Number: 91159 |
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A brilliant blend of biography and a bold book about ballooning, the book is hilarious, entertaining and inspiring about James Sadler, the first Englishman to fly. It is the story of how an uneduc...
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| PETER HORE Book Number: 91164 |
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While there is perennial interest in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and in Nelson himself, there is no reference work that chronicles all the captains of his ships, their social origins,...
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| KETIL BJORNSTAD Book Number: 91173 |
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A fascinating literary construction of the life of one of the world's most popular 19th century painters, based on Edvard Munch's own diaries, notes and letters. His troubled relationships, partic...
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| ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY Book Number: 91185 |
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It was the year 44BC when Julius Caesar was killed, when Augustus was a mere teenager who had been adopted into Caesar's household. His rection to Caesar's death was to step forward and proclaim h...
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| MARK RYAN Book Number: 90787 |
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The first two VCs of World War I were gained at the bloody battle of Mons in an action defending the Nimy Bridge. Both men received multiple gunshot wounds but refused to leave their posts, in spi...
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| WALTER SHAPIRO Book Number: 90789 |
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Journalist Walter Shapiro always assumed that the stories about his great uncle Freeman Bernstein, particularly the one where he conned Hitler's war effort out of a valuable shipload of scrap metal...
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| JOHN GRAINGER Book Number: 91226 |
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Antipater was a key figure in the rise of Macedon under Philip II and instrumental in the succession of Alexander III (the Great). Alexander entrusted Antipater with ruling Macedon in his long abse...
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| HUGH TOURS Book Number: 91252 |
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John Godfrey Parry Thomas (J. G. Thomas) set numerous records across his extraordinary motor career, achieving a speed of more than 170 mph in 1926 in his 27-litre Liberty engine powered Higham 'Sp...
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| VICTORIA SHORR Book Number: 91380 |
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'Written with a novelist's narrative flair and a biographer's factual command, Shorr recreates and reassesses the lives of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and Joan of Arc at their hour of reckoning.' - J...
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| ALAN STRAUSS-SCHOM Book Number: 91396 |
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Very few people have the power to change the world they live in but Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France as Napoleon III, was one of the few. Nephew of the Great Napoleon, he presided over France's Se...
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| CLAUDIA RENTON Book Number: 91403 |
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The three Wyndham sisters, immortalised by John Singer Sargent in a celebrated canvas at the turn of the 20th century, were famous not only for their beauty but also for the political influence eac...
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| ANTHONY BURTON Book Number: 91582 |
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Born in the Staffordshire potteries in 1739, Josiah Wedgwood was from a family of potters who worked in traditional ways, but he was to revolutionise the industry. When he started work, the local ...
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| TONY SULLIVAN Book Number: 91583 |
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Beginning in Roman Britain, evidence is laid out in chronological order: the Venerable Bede, the Historia Brittonum, the Welsh Annals, the Anglo-Saxons, Saints' Lives, the History of the Kings of B...
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| ROBERT HUTCHINSON Book Number: 91600 |
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Colonel Blood was the spy who stole the crown jewels and became the king's secret agent. One morning in May 1671, this man daringly attempted to seize the crown jewels from the Tower of London. A...
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| ALBERTO ANGELA Book Number: 91625 |
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Sub-titled 'The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity', more than a muse and greater than a myth, Cleopatra was ruler, lover, diplomat and icon. The last Queen of Egypt lived less than ...
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| JONATHAN BATE Book Number: 91099 |
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William Wordsworth was born among the mountains of the Lake District, walked into the French Revolution, had a love affair and an illegitimate child before witnessing horrific violence in Paris. H...
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| PHILIPPA FAULKS, R.L.D. COOPER Book Number: 91757 |
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'The Life and Death of Count Cagliostro and His Egyptian Rite' is the sub-title of this first English translation of the Egyptian Rite ever published. It tells the extraordinary story of a cult fi...
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| MARSHA KEITH SCHUCHARD Book Number: 91763 |
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Miranda Seymour in the Sunday Times said 'Schuchard places Blake at the heart of a secret London as high on spiritualized sexuality as San Francisco in the 'summer of love'.' William Blake (1757-18...
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| FRANK ZÖLLNER Book Number: 91542 |
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This sumptuous Taschen offering is the most thorough and beautifully produced Leonardo book ever published. The catalogue raisonné of Leonardo's paintings covers all of his surviving and lost pain...
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| FRANK ZÖLLNER & C. THOENES Book Number: 91551 |
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Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, paint...
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