History - British

The Mother of Parliaments

Harry Graham

The work is a comprehensive survey of England’s parliamentary development, presented as a single‑volume guide…

Collections and Recollections

George William Erskine Russell

Collections and Recollections is a self‑styled “diary‑derived” miscellany by George William Erskine Russell,…

The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 1 (of 2)

L. Tyerman

Luke Tyerman’s two‑volume biography of George Whitefield opens with a vigorous defense of its scope and…

The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History

Martin A. S. Hume

Martin A. S. Hume’s work is a scholarly examination of the six queens who married Henry VIII, presented as a…

A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898

Henry R. Plomer

The work is a scholarly survey of English printing from its continental origins in the late fifteenth century…

History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum)

active 796 Nennius

Nennius’s Historia Brittonum is a medieval compilation that seeks to preserve the fragmented memory of…

"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3)

Dr. Doran

Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History

Paul Vinogradoff

The work is a scholarly collection of essays on the social and legal structures of medieval England, focused…

Boating

Walter Bradford Woodgate

The volume Boating is a comprehensive guide to rowing, presented as part of the Badminton Library of Sports…

The Government of England (Vol. I)

A. Lawrence Lowell

The Government of England, Volume I is a scholarly survey of the British political system as it stood in the…

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

Henry Hallam

Henry Hallam’s three‑volume Constitutional History of England, covering the period from Henry VII to George…

A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 3, Sep. 1809-Dec. 1810: Ocaña, Cadiz, Bussaco, Torres Vedras

Charles Oman

The third volume of Charles Oman’s History of the Peninsular War picks up where the first two left off,…

Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison

William Harrison

This work is a seventeenth‑century topographical and social survey of England, compiled by William Harrison,…

Itinerarium curiosum (centuria I): or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain

William Stukeley

This work is a self‑conscious travelogue of antiquarian observation, written by the English physician and…

Sketch of the Reformation in England

John J. Blunt

The book is a scholarly sketch of England’s Reformation, authored by John J.

A History of the Old English Letter Foundries with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.

Talbot Baines Reed

The work is a scholarly history of English type‑founding, written by Talbot Baines Reed and first issued in…

The Mediæval Hospitals of England

Rotha Mary Clay

The work is a scholarly survey of England’s medieval charitable institutions, especially those labelled…

Cassell's History of England, Vol. 3 (of 8) From the Great Rebellion to the Fall of Marlborough.

Anonymous

The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852

Charles Greville

The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 is a three‑volume diary that continues Charles C.

The Jews in Great Britain Being a Series of Six Lectures, Delivered in the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, on the Antiquities of the Jews in England.

Moses Margoliouth

The work is a six‑part lecture series delivered in 1845‑46 at the Liverpool Collegiate Institution by the…

Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 1 (of 2)

William Howitt

The work is a guide to the physical settings that inspired Britain’s most celebrated poets, arranged as a…

A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

George Saintsbury

George Saintsbury’s A History of Nineteenth‑Century Literature is a scholarly survey that maps the…

A Short History of English Liberalism

W. Lyon Blease

This work is a scholarly survey of the evolution of Liberal thought within British politics over a span of…

Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy

Charles W. David

The work is a scholarly biography of Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror, placed firmly…