History - British

Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3

Henry Hallam

This work is a scholarly survey of England’s constitutional development from the reign of Henry VII through…

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4

Various

The April 1844 issue of The Knickerbocker, or New‑York Monthly Magazine opens with a sweeping essay that…

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

The volume is a nineteenth‑century compilation of true‑to‑life sketches of Britain’s most infamous felons,…

The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles.

Ella Sophia Armitage

The work is a scholarly survey of early Norman fortifications across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland,…

The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer

Isambard Brunel

The book is a comprehensive, first‑person memoir of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s professional life, written by…

Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1

Walter Scott

The first volume of Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border is a sweeping survey of the borderlands…

The Stately Homes of England

Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William; Hall, S. C.

The work is a Victorian‑era survey of England’s great country houses, originally contributed to the…

Old English Chronicles

The volume is a composite of several early medieval chronicles, each introduced with scholarly notes that…

Ten Years in Washington or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them ... to Which Is Added a Full Account of the Life and Death of President James A. Garfield

Mary Clemmer

Mary Clemmer’s Ten Years in Washington is a sprawling, illustrated memoir that blends personal observation…

Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle

Maud Stepney Rawson

The work is a biographical study of Elizabeth Hardwick, better known as Bess of Hardwick, placed firmly…

Rambles on Railways

Sir Cusack P. Roney

Rambles on Railways is a nineteenth‑century survey of railway development, written by Sir Cusack P. Roney.

Military Architecture in England During the Middle Ages

A. Hamilton Thompson

The work is a scholarly survey of English military architecture from the Roman era to the early modern…

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John

David Hume

David Hume’s “The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.

Memories of an Old Etonian, 1860-1912

G. Greville Moore

The History of the Fabian Society

Edward R. Pease

Edward R. Pease’s The History of the Fabian Society is a scholarly chronicle of the British socialist…

Caroline the Illustrious, vol. 1 (of 2): Queen-Consort of George II. and sometime Queen-Regent; A Study of Her Life and Time

W. H. Wilkins

The work is a scholarly biography of Caroline of Ansbach, Queen‑Consort of George II and four‑time…

The Colleges of Oxford: Their History and Traditions XXI Chapters Contributed by Members of the Colleges

The work is a collective history of Oxford’s colleges, assembled in twenty‑one chapters contributed by…

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s A Popular History of Ireland is a sweeping nineteenth‑century survey that traces Irish…

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

Egerton Ryerson

A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3

George Elliott Howard

Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents

Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

Memoirs of the Court of George IV offers a detailed chronicle of the tumultuous first decade of his reign,…

Norfolk Annals, Vol. 1 A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century

Charles Mackie

Norfolk Annals, Volume 1 is a chronologically arranged reference work that records the “remarkable events” of…

Allen & Morton's West-London Directory for 1867

Allen & Morton

London and the Kingdom - Volume 3 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

Reginald R. Sharpe

London and the Kingdom – Volume 3 is a scholarly chronicle that draws almost entirely from the Guildhall…