Christopher Hibbert, MC, FRSL, FRGS (5 March 1924 - 21 December 2008) was an English writer, historian and biographer. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many books, including Disraeli, Edward VII, George IV, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, and Cavaliers and Roundheads. Described by Professor Sir John Plumb as "a writer of the highest ability and in the New Statesman as "a pearl of biographers," he established himself as a leading popular historian/biographer whose works reflected meticulous scholarship.
Series
Books
The House of Medici
1975
The Borgias and Their Enemies
1431-1519
2008
The Grand Tour
1974
Venice
The Biography of a City
1989
Nelson
A Personal History
1994
Anzio
Bid For Rome
1970
Napoleon
His Wives and Women
2002
The Great Mutiny
India 1857
1978
Gilbert & Sullivan and their Victorian world
1976
Charles I
1968
Redcoats and Rebels
1990
King Arthur
1969
The Marlboroughs
John and Sarah Churchill, 1650-1744
2001
Cities and Civilizations
1986
Days of The French Revolution
1980
George III
A Personal History
1998
The Way of King Arthur
2004
A Brief History of the Borgias
The Bloodiest Family of the Italian Renaissance
2010
Cavaliers and Roundheads
1993
Tower of London
1971
The Virgin Queen
1990
King Mob
1958
George IV
Prince of Wales, 1762-1811
1972
The Roots of Evil
A Social History of Crime and Punishment
1963
Edward VII
The Last Victorian King
2007
A Soldier of the Seventy-First
The Journal of a Soldier in the Peninsular War
1819
George IV
The Rebel Who Would Be King
1976
The Court at Windsor
A Domestic History
1964
Charles Dickens
The Making of a Literary Giant
1967
Versailles,
1971
Disraeli
The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister
2004
Arnhem
1962
The English
A Social History 1066-1945
1987
Corunna
1961
Life in Victorian England
2016
London
The Biography of a City
1980
Wolfe at Quebec
1959
Florence
The Biography of a City
1993
Queen Victoria
A Personal History
2000
The Road to Tyburn
1957
The Story of England
1994
Africa Explored
Europeans in the Dark Continent, 1769-1889
1982
The Royal Victorians
King Edward VII, His Family And Friends
1976
Rome
The Biography of a City
1985
Wellington
A Personal History
1997
The Dragon Wakes
China and the West, 1793-1911
1970
Agincourt
1964
