Biography: Historical, Political & Military

David Livingstone rose from being a factory boy to become an African explorer and a hero of the Victorian age. This volume of essays, rich in new s...

Ruth Davidson has enjoyed a stratospheric rise to prominence within the Scottish Conservative Party, winning her surprise leadership victory an ast...

When David Cameron and Nick Clegg stepped out into the rose garden at No. 10 to launch the first coalition government since the Second World War, s...

I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream. All of this pleases me. I have been faithful to my duty. Thus José de...

In 1789 Hannah Lightbody, a well-educated and intelligent young woman of means, married Samuel Greg and found herself at the centre of his cotton e...

Amid the deadly racial violence of the 1960s, an unassuming student from a fundamentalist Christian home in Omaha emerged as a leader and nationall...

Like his crusading father before him, Simon de Montforts combination of charisma and fearlessness made him one of the greatest men of his age. This...