Jad Adams is a historian who specialises in radical characters from the 19th and 20th centuries and has an interest in the culture of the 1890s. His biographical books include Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives, Tony Benn, Gandhi: Naked Ambition, Pankhurst, Kipling and Dynasty: The Nehru-Gandhi Story. Other work includes Women and the Vote: A World History and Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle. He is a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on figures from the 1890s, left-wing and radical characters. Prior to devoting himself full time to books he worked in television, making documentaries and series, often with a biographical theme. 

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A professional writer, broadcaster and genealogist since 1990 at http://www.anthonyadolph.co.uk, Anthonys 10 published books include Collins’s best-selling Tracing Your Family History, and two biographies, The King’s Henchman (Gibson Square, 2014), revealing the previously untold career of Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans (Biographer’s Club prize runner-up, 2002), and Brutus of Troy (Pen & Sword, 2015), exploring Britain’s mythological founder. His LATEST biography, In Search of Aeneas: Classical Myth or Bronze Age King?, the first ever biography of Aeneas, a hero in Homer’s Iliad and the hero in Virgil’s Aeneid, who bestrode the boundary between fact and fiction, is published by Amberley (October, 2023).