History - British

Miss Eden's Letters

Emily Eden

Miss Eden’s Letters is a curated collection of the private correspondence of Emily Eden (1797‑1869), a…

The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; Vol. 4 of 4

Robert Wilson

The work is a comprehensive chronicle of Queen Victoria’s reign, compiled by Robert Wilson as the final…

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 1 (of 6) New Complete Library Edition

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422‑1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume 1, is a scholarly edition of a…

King and commonwealth: A history of Charles I. and the great rebellion

Gardiner, Bertha Meriton; Phillpotts, J. Surtees

King and Commonwealth is a scholarly history of the English Civil War and its aftermath, written jointly by…

History of the United States of America, Volume 4 (of 9): During the second administration of Thomas Jefferson

Henry Adams

Henry Adams’s fourth volume in his nine‑part History of the United States of America turns its focus to the…

The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period

K. Rebillon Lambley

The work is a scholarly survey of how French was taught and used in England from the medieval period through…

Afghanistan

A. Hamilton

The work is a scholarly survey of Afghanistan written at the turn of the twentieth century, intended to fill…

Shakespeare's environment

C. C. Stopes

This work is a scholarly compilation by Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, bringing together a series of her…

The autobiography of Arthur Young: With Selections From His Correspondence

Arthur Young

The work is an autobiographical memoir of Arthur Young, the eighteenth‑century English agriculturist whose…

Highways and Byways in Sussex

E. V. Lucas

The book is a travel‑guide‑in‑essay form that maps a walking tour of Sussex from west to east, beginning in…

The Battaile of Agincourt

Michael Drayton

The work is Michael Drayton’s poetic retelling of the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, presented as a long narrative…

Scotland under her early kings, Volume 1 (of 2): A History of the Kingdom to the Close of the Thirteenth Century

Eben William Robertson

The work is a scholarly survey of early Scottish history, written by Eben William Robertson in the…

The History of "Punch"

M. H. Spielmann

The History of “Punch” is a scholarly study of the nineteenth‑century British satirical weekly, assembled by…

Chelsea

G. E. Mitton

The work is a detailed topographical and historical survey of Chelsea, the fashionable riverside district of…

The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain

A. T. Mahan

The work is a scholarly biography that situates Admiral Horatio Nelson within the strategic and political…

Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less

George Worley

George Worley’s work is a scholarly handbook that surveys the history, architecture, and artefacts of the…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "English History" Volume 9, Slice 5

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 11th Edition presents a scholarly survey of English history, and this volume opens…

England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel

Joel Cook

This work is a richly illustrated travel guide that seeks to combine practical advice with a literary…

English and American tool builders

Joseph Wickham Roe

The book is a scholarly survey of the people who created the machines that make other machines, focusing on…

The Growth of the English House A short history of its architectural development from 1100 to 1800

J. Alfred Gotch

The work is a concise survey of English domestic architecture from the emergence of the stone keep in the…

Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3)

Richard Bagwell

Richard Bagwell’s Ireland under the Tudors is a scholarly survey of Irish history from the early medieval…

Birds in the Calendar

Frederick G. Aflalo

The work is a scholarly survey of British game birds, opening with an extended essay on the pheasant that…

Itinerarium curiosum (centuria II): or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain. To which is added, the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, monk of Westminster. With an account of that author and his work

William Stukeley

The work is a posthumous compilation of William Stukeley’s scattered notes, plates, and tracts, assembled to…

The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 1 of 2)

John Evelyn

The Diary of John Evelyn is a seventeenth‑century journal that records the thoughts and observations of a…