Christine Nicholls

In 1961 Nicholls went to Lady Margaret Hall, in Oxford University where she received her MA. She then attended St Antony's College and received her D.Phil. Following her university education she was employed at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at London University as a research fellow. She later worked as a freelance researcher for the BBC Arabic department.^[3]

Nicholls joined Oxford University Press in 1977 as Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. She later became the editor and produced 5 volumes from 1981 to 1986. She has also written a number of other factual books under the name of C.S. Nicholls.^[3]

• 1971 The Swahili Coast: Politics, Diplomacy and Trade on the East African Littoral, (Allen & Unwin) ISBN 978-0841900998
• 1981 Dictionary of Biography 1961–1970, with E.T. Williams (Oxford University Press) ISBN 978-0198652076
• 1986 Dictionary of Biography 1971–1980, with Lord Blake(Oxford University Press) ISBN 978-0198652083
• 1990 Dictionary of Biography 1981–1985, with Lord Blake (Oxford University Press) ISBN 978-0198652106
• 1996 Dictionary of Biography 1986–1990, (Oxford University Press) ISBN 978-0198652120
• 1993 Dictionary of National Biography–Missing Persons, (Oxford University Press) ISBN 978-0198652113
• 1990 Power: A Political History, (Harrup, OUP and various) ISBN 978-0195207934
• 1985 Cataract, (with Philip Awdry) (Faber & Faber) ISBN 9780571134786
• 1996 Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography (Helicon) ISBN 978-1859861578
• 1998 David Livingstone, (Sutton Publications) ISBN 978-0750915915 Written as part of a biographical series which Nicholls edited.
• 2000 A History of St Anthony’s College 1950–2000, (Macmillan) ISBN 978-0333791837
• 2002 Elspeth Huxley: A Biography, (HarperCollins) (Thomas Dunne Books in USA). ISBN 9780007292042
• 2005 Red Strangers: The White Tribe of Kenya, (Timewell Press) ISBN 978-1857252064
• 2011 A Kenya Childhood, (blurb.com)