Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

Brief guide to Kings & Queens of England and Great Britain

by Eric R. Delderfield

Churchill

by Roy Jenkins

CHURCHILL'S PROVENANCE WAS aristocratic, indeed ducal, and some have seen this as the most important key to his whole ca...

Dictionary of National Biography

by George Murray Smith, Sir Sidney Lee

Tolkien

by Humphrey Carpenter, Pierre Alien

It is mid-morning on a spring day in 1967.

Elizabeth the Great

by Elizabeth Jenkins

The Beatles

by Bob Spitz

The usual shock wave shuddered through Copenhagen Airport as the Beatles' plane approached from the north.

Sterling Biographies: Benjamin Franklin

by Maria Mihalik Higgins

London - The Biography (London a Biography)

by Peter Ackroyd, Wright, Thomas

see subdivision Portraits under local biography and under cl...

Freddie Mercury

by Lesley-Ann Jones

Elizabeth

by Sarah Bradford

Enid Blyton

by Barbara Stoney

The Prince of Wales

by Jonathan Dimbleby

T. H. White:A Biography

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Great Contemporaries

by Winston S. Churchill

Orwell

by Michael Shelden

Mountbatten

by Philip Ziegler

Never at rest

by Richard S. Westfall

NEWTON'S name in the matriculation book of Cambridge University on 8 July 1661, together with those of sixteen other stu...

Mercury

by Lesley-Ann Jones