History - British

From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors

Henry A. Beers

From its title and subject heading, this volume is a historical‑critical survey of English literature,…

The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 4

E. K. Chambers

The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. IV is a scholarly reference work edited by E. K.

The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814

The work is a verbatim record of the 1814 trial held in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, concerning a…

The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 2 (of 6)

Edward A. Freeman

Edward A. Freeman’s second volume of a planned six‑part series offers a scholarly narrative of the early…

Richard the Lion Heart

Kate Norgate

Kate Norgate’s work is a scholarly biography of Richard I, king of England, that treats his short reign and…

The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 1 (of 6)

Edward A. Freeman

The work is a scholarly, multi‑volume history of the Norman conquest of England, written by Edward A.

The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 3, 1854-1861: A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.

Queen of Great Britain Victoria

This volume gathers a selection of Queen Victoria’s private and official correspondence from 1854‑1861, drawn…

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 1

A. T. Mahan

This work is a scholarly treatise by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a noted naval historian, that examines how…

Warships and their story

R. A. Fletcher

The book is a broad‑sweeping survey of warship development, written by R. A.

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volumes 1 and 2: Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761

Mrs. Montagu

The work is a two‑volume edited collection of Elizabeth Montagu’s letters, spanning 1720‑1761, assembled by…

A History of Elizabethan Literature

George Saintsbury

George Saint‑sbury’s A History of Elizabethan Literature is a scholarly survey that maps the literary…

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III.

Mrs. A. T. Thomson

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, Volume III, is a collection of contemporary letters, reports, and…

The loyalists of America and their times: from 1620 to 1816, Vol. 1 of 2

Egerton Ryerson

The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Volume 1, is a scholarly, documentary‑style history by Egerton…

The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 1, 1837-1843: A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.

Queen of Great Britain Victoria

This volume is a curated selection of Queen Victoria’s personal correspondence from the early years of her…

The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2

Willis J. Abbot

The Naval History of the United States, Volume 2, by Willis J.

William Pitt and national revival

J. Holland Rose

This work is a scholarly biography of William Pitt the Younger, written by J. Holland Rose, a Litt.D.

Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II

Sir John Ross

This volume is a collection of memoirs and correspondence by Admiral Sir James Saumarez, presented by his son…

My own story

Emmeline Pankhurst

My Own Story is an autobiographical account by Emmeline Pankhurst, the leading British suffragette, that…

Great Britain and the American Civil War

Ephraim Douglass Adams

Ephraim Douglass Adams’s Great Britain and the American Civil War is a scholarly examination of how the…

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy

Keppel, Henry, Sir; James, Rajah of Sarawak

The work is a first‑hand narrative of a mid‑nineteenth‑century naval expedition, written by Sir Henry Keppel…

Impressions of South Africa

James Bryce

The work is a sweeping historical‑geographical study of South Africa, beginning with a concise appraisal of…

The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 2, 1844-1853: A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.

Queen of Great Britain Victoria

The volume presents a curated selection of Queen Victoria’s private and official correspondence from the…

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland

Romer, Cecil Francis; Mainwaring, Arthur Edward

The work is a regimental history of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, written by Majors Cecil F.

The History of Trade Unionism (Revised edition, extended to 1920)

Webb, Sidney; Webb, Beatrice

The work is a scholarly history of British trade unionism, written by the husband‑and‑wife team Sidney and…