History - British

History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire [1851]

Samuel Bagshaw

Samuel Bagshaw’s 1851 volume is a comprehensive county reference that blends a historical narrative with an…

Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.

James Croston

James Croston’s “Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire” is a companion volume to his earlier “Nooks and…

The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson

Robert Southey

Robert Southey’s work is a biographical narrative that traces the formative years of Horatio Nelson, later…

Memorials of Old Devonshire

Memorials of Old Devonshire is a scholarly anthology that assembles a series of essays on the history and…

Brief History of English and American Literature

Henry A. Beers

The work is a compact survey of English and American literary development, framed as an introductory guide…

King Henry V Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre

William Shakespeare

This volume presents William Shakespeare’s historical drama King Henry V as it was staged at the Princess’s…

Hobson-Jobson A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive

Yule, Henry, Sir; Burnell, A. C.

Hobson‑Jobson is a scholarly glossary that records the Anglo‑Indian vocabulary that grew up as English…

Memorials of old Durham

The volume is a scholarly survey of Durham’s antiquities, assembled from the contributions of historians,…

The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684

The volume gathers a broad selection of Cavalier ballads printed between 1642 and 1684, a period that spans…

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880

John Morley

John Morley’s second volume of The Life of William Ewart Gladstone is a scholarly biography that situates…

Lectures on the constitution and laws of England With a commentary on Magna Charta, and illustrations of many of the English statutes

Francis Stoughton Sullivan

The work is a scholarly series of university lectures by the late Francis Stoughton Sullivan, originally…

William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England From the earliest period to the reign of King Stephen

of Malmesbury William

William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle of the Kings of England is a medieval history that spans from the earliest…

Holborn and Bloomsbury

Besant, Walter; Mitton, G. E.

The work is a scholarly guide to the historic heart of London, focusing on the adjoining districts of Holborn…

The girlhood of Queen Victoria, vol. 1 (of 2): A selection from Her Majesty's diaries between the years 1832 and 1840

Queen of Great Britain Victoria

The work is a carefully edited selection from Queen Victoria’s own journals, covering the years 1832‑1840,…

Our Legal Heritage, King AEthelbert, 596 to King George III, 1775

S. A. Reilly

Our Legal Heritage, by S. A. Reilly, is a scholarly survey of English law from the earliest recorded statutes…

Mediæval Military Architecture in England, Volume 2 (of 2)

George Thomas Clark

The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain

Samuel Smiles

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography of Thomas Telford, the celebrated civil engineer, written by…

The Noble and Gentle Men of England or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.

Evelyn Philip Shirley

The work is a nineteenth‑century genealogical catalogue that sets out, county by county, the lineages of…

English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.

Graham Everitt

Everitt’s work is a scholarly survey of English caricaturists and graphic humourists from the Napoleonic era…

English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations

Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley’s English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations is a scholarly reference…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "England" to "English Finance" Volume 9, Slice 4

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Eleventh Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4, is a scholarly reference work that presents a…

The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles

Effendi Shoghi

The work is a collection of letters and directives from Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith,…

A history of England principally in the seventeenth century, Volume 2 (of 6)

Leopold von Ranke

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 4

Henry Mayhew

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 4, is a nineteenth‑century social survey that turns its focus to the…