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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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| MIKE JAY Book Number: 88861 |
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Was Despard a hero or villain we ask in this energetic study of the political complexity of the 1790s. It is the true story of Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, the last person to be sentenced to han...
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| KURT FLASCH Book Number: 88947 |
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One of the most senior scholars and best-known writers on late German Medieval thought in Europe, renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister ...
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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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| IAN LLOYD Book Number: 89271 |
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A compelling series of vignettes on 30 famous Victorians such as Barnum, the Greatest Showman, who failed to impress Queen Victoria, how the Queen was taught to use the telephone by Alexander Graha...
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| SIMON HEWITT Book Number: 89302 |
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A great artistic detective story which turns our understanding of Leonardo da Vinci upside down. Simon Hewitt demonstrates that Leonardo's only male portrait (The Musician) depicts Bianca Sforza's...
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| BENJAMIN WARDHAUGH Book Number: 89063 |
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Charles Hutton. One of Britain's most brilliant mathematicians. At the tender age of 18 in August 1755, he had been down in the coal pits in Newcastle on the north bank of the Tyne on and off for m...
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| THOMAS J. SCHAEPER Book Number: 89382 |
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The name of Edward Bancroft (1744-1821) is little-known, but in this first complete biography we discover what an important figure he was in the history of espionage and the American Revolution. Bo...
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| G. J. MEYER Book Number: 89713 |
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Apologies if stickered and has small remainder mark, we could not resist importing from the US this important book. The mention of the Borgia family conjures up images of serpentine plots, assassi...
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| EDIT JAMPA MACKENZIE STEWART Book Number: 89196 |
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Longchenpa was a 14th century scholar and abbot of Tibetan Buddhism, a prolific writer whose 300 books, manuals, sadhanas and treatises cover the entire range of Buddhist teaching and practice. 650...
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| ELEANOR FITZSIMMONS Book Number: 90249 |
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Beautiful, talented and dressed in flowing robes in defiance of Victorian corsetry, Edith Nesbit was "always surrounded by adoring young men" and embraced an unconventional lifestyle, eventually ma...
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| CHRIS SKIDMORE Book Number: 90318 |
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Interest in Richard III reached fever pitch a few years ago with the discovery of his bones in a Leicester car park, but fascination with the controversial "hunchback" king goes back to Richard's o...
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| SUMMER STREVENS Book Number: 90349 |
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Subtitled 'The Life and Death of Mary Channing', we learn that in 1706 the 19 year old Mary was convicted of poisoning her husband. She became the last woman to be burned at the stake in Dorset. ...
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| JON BURSEY Book Number: 90350 |
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The British took possession of the island of Hong Kong on 26th January 1841, following the Convention of Chuanbi. The Convention was immediately repudiated by both the British and Chinese governme...
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| NICK KOLLERSTROM Book Number: 90357 |
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Aldous Huxley once said, 'The price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a fai...
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| GEOFFREY PIMM Book Number: 90358 |
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As we know from his personal diaries, Samuel Pepys recorded carefully every daily event of his public and private life over a period of more than nine years from January 1660 to May 1669. There wa...
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| STEPHEN BASDEO Book Number: 90372 |
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Wat Tyler was the leader of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, a group of Kentish labourers who marched to London to demand their rights from Richard II and were brutally treated following the murder of...
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| PETER SPRING Book Number: 90384 |
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The world of the Wars of the Roses can seem remote, with the throne changing hands between Lancastrian Henry VI and Yorkist Edward IV several times, and courtiers coming and going in rapid and viol...
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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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| MARTIN GIBSON Book Number: 90766 |
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In 1915, when the War Office appealed for experienced civil engineers to volunteer to help break the Western Front's appallingly costly stalemate, aged 50, Lieutenant and the Captain Bracken RE whi...
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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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| A. N. WILSON Book Number: 91051 |
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The award-winning biographer A. N. Wilson has produced a deliciously readable biography and brings his novelist's perception and immense knowledge of the Victorian era. For more than six decades Q...
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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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