History - British

Ireland as it is, and as it would be under Home Rule

Robert John Buckley

Robert John Buckley’s Ireland as it is, and as it would be under Home Rule is a contemporary report by the…

The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760

Myra Reynolds

Myra Reynolds’s scholarly work surveys the status and accomplishments of learned women in England from the…

The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8

George Dodd

George Dodd’s work is a comprehensive chronicle of the Indian mutiny of 1857‑58, framed within the wider…

A Student's History of England, v. 2: 1509-1689 From the Earliest Times to the Death of King Edward VII

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Copyright: Its History and Its Law

R. R. Bowker

The work is a scholarly survey of copyright law as it stood in the early twentieth century, written by…

Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3

Henry Hallam

This three‑volume work, Constitutional History of England, by the 19th‑century historian Henry Hallam, is a…

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 4 (of 6) New Complete Library Edition

The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422‑1509, Volume 4 of the six‑volume New Complete Library Edition, presents a…

The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters

Thomas Wemyss Fulton

Thomas Wemyss Fulton’s work is a scholarly survey of England’s historic claims to maritime sovereignty,…

The early court of Queen Victoria

Clare Jerrold

Clare Jerrold’s The Early Court of Queen Victoria is a biographical study that seeks to peel back the layers…

The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter, Being a Proof, with Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document Together with Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes

Henry Spink

The work is a scholarly treatise by Henry Hawkes Spink, a junior solicitor, that sets out to prove, with what…

Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats

Barnette Miller

The work is a scholarly study that seeks to unite the fragmented biographical material on Leigh Hunt’s…

Lord William Beresford, V.C., Some Memories of a Famous Sportsman, Soldier and Wit

Mrs. Stuart Menzies

The work is a memoir‑style biography of Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford, a Victorian‑era soldier,…

The English Language

R. G. Latham

The work is a scholarly grammar of English that sets out, from its very first page, an ambitious aim: to…

English Poor Law Policy

Webb, Sidney; Webb, Beatrice

The work is a scholarly survey of English Poor Law policy from its 1834 reform through the early…

A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811: Massena's retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona

Charles Oman

Charles Oman's A History of the Peninsular War continues its meticulous chronicle of the conflict, focusing…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 5 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a sprawling collection of essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay, gathered in the fifth volume of…

The Old East Indiamen

E. Keble Chatterton

Naval songs and ballads

This volume assembles a series of naval ballads that trace the British navy’s story from the sixteenth…

Champions of the fleet: Captains and men-of-war and days that helped to make the empire

Edward Fraser

The work is a Victorian‑era survey of Britain’s naval heritage, written by Edward Fraser to celebrate the…

The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs

Thomas Frost

The work is a historical survey of London’s great fairs and the itinerant entertainers who populated them.

The Great Company: being a history of the honourable company of merchants-adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay

Beckles Willson

The work is a historical study of the Hudson’s Bay Company, presented as a comprehensive chronicle of the…

Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888

King of Great Britain Edward VII

The volume is a curated collection of the public speeches and addresses delivered by Albert Edward, Prince of…

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

Henry Coppée

Henry Coppée’s work is a scholarly manual that treats English literature as a mirror of the nation’s history…

The Irish Guards in the Great War, Volume 1 (of 2): The First Battalion

Rudyard Kipling