Arthur Bryant

Arthur Bryant (18 February 1899 - 22 January 1985) was a popular British historical writer, and columnist for the Illustrated London News. His reputation has suffered as details of a number of controversial episodes of his life have been made public.

Works

• King Charles the Second (1931)
• Macaulay (1932)
• Life of Samuel Pepys in three volumes: The Man in the Making, The Years of Peril, The Saviour of the Navy (1933)
• The Man and the Hour (1934)
• The Letters Speeches and Declarations of King Charles II (1935), editor
• The England of Charles II (1935), later Restoration England
• Postman's Horn, An Anthology of the Letters of Latter Seventeenth Century England (1936), editor
• The American Ideal (1936)
• George V (1936)
• Stanley Baldwin: A Tribute (1937)
• English Saga 1840–1940 (1940)
• The Years of Endurance 1793–1802 (1942)
• Dunkirk (A memorial) (1943), pamphlet
• Years of Victory (1944)
• The Battle of Britain. The Few (1944), with Edward Shanks
• Historian's Holiday (1946), Dropmore Press
• Trafalgar and Alamein (1948), with Edward Shanks and Field Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
• The Summer of Dunkirk and The Great Miracle (1948), with Edward Shanks
• The Story of England: Makers of the Realm (1953)
• The Age of Elegance 1812–1822 (1954)
• The Turn of the Tide 1939–1943 (1957), Alanbrooke diaries
• Triumph In The West 1943–1946 (1959), Alanbrooke diaries
• Liquid History (1960), fifty years of the Port of London Authority
• Jimmy, the Dog of My Life (1960)
• The Age of Chivalry (1963)
• The Medieval Foundation of England (1965)
• The Fire and the Rose: Dramatic Moments in British History (1966)
• The Lion and the Unicorn: Historian's Testament (1969)
• Jackets of Green. A Study of the History, Philosophy and Character of the Rifle Brigade (1972)
• Leeds Castle — a Brief History (1980), Leeds Castle Foundation
• Set in a Silver Sea: A History of Britain and the British People, Vol 1
• The Elizabethan Deliverance