Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs: Personal Journeys Through History
Explore the lives of remarkable individuals with books in our Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs collection. These narratives offer close perspectives on historical events, cultural movements and personal achievement in various fields of academic research.
War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455
by Michael Brown
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781910900413
Pub Date: 2025-11-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: John Donald
256 Pages
Michael Brown analyses the rise and fall of the Douglas family as the dominant magnates of the south of Scotland, from the deeds of the Good Sir James Douglas in the service of Bruce to the violent destruction of the Douglas earls in the 1450s.
In The Endless Tide, Iain R. Thomson turns his attention to the Hebrides, and the collection of stories that permeate the area. Meeting a vast cast of characters, he ranges from personal anecdotes of...
David II (1329–1371), son of the hero King of Scots, Robert Bruce (1306–1329), has suffered a harsh historical press, condemned as a disastrous general, a womaniser and a sympathiser with Scotland’s...
This third volume of a three-volume set offers concise biographical information for generals and admirals of the Third Reich with surnames between P and Z.
Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent biography. Fortunately his career...
A biographical fusion of history, geography and archaeology with a focus on landscape and castles studies, examining Edlingham Castle and its first builder, William de Felton.
William Wyon was the most popular image maker of the nineteenth century whose work on the different coinages of the British Empire and on the first postage stamps was known all around the globe.
Giovan Girolamo de’ Rossi (1505-1564), who was bishop of Pavia, marked the political and religious history of the city of Prato, where he is buried in the church of the Spirito Santo. In these pages,...
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