History - British

Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History

Richard Valpy French

Richard Valpy French’s work is a scholarly survey of English drinking habits, assembled from articles that…

Atrocious Judges : Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression

John Campbell

Atrocious Judges is a sweeping historical study that catalogues the lives and careers of England’s most…

The Comic History of England

Gilbert Abbott À Beckett

The work is a deliberately humorous survey of English history, presented as a “comic” rather than a scholarly…

Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, Taken from Original Sources

John Ashton

John Ashton’s work is a meticulously compiled social history of Britain under Queen Anne, drawn entirely from…

History of English Literature Volume 2 (of 3)

Hippolyte Taine

This volume is a scholarly survey of English literary development, written by the French critic Hippolyte…

A Walk from London to Fulham

Thomas Crofton Croker

The work is a nostalgic topographical memoir that records a once‑familiar route from central London to the…

Mandalay to Momien A narrative of the two expeditions to western China of 1868 and 1875 under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne

John Anderson

John Anderson’s Mandalay to Momien is a detailed travel narrative that records two British‑led expeditions…

My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills

Sir James Johnstone

The work is a first‑person memoir of Sir James Johnstone, an Anglo‑Indian officer who spent the 1870s and…

English Painters, with a Chapter on American Painters

Wilmot-Buxton, H. J. (Harry John); Koehler, S. R.

This work is a scholarly survey of English painting, supplemented by a concise chapter on American artists.

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915

Various

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Volume 1, Issue 4 (January 23 1915) presents a…

The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British Colony

Thomas Lindsay Buick

Thomas Lindsay Buick’s work is a historical study that traces the political and diplomatic forces behind the…

Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander R.N. (1775–1814)

James Anthony Gardner

Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander R.N. (1775–1814) is a personal memoir rather than a…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a volume of critical and historical essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, assembled with a…

Geoffrey de Mandeville: A study of the Anarchy

John Horace Round

John Horace Round’s work is a scholarly study of the turbulent reign of Stephen, framed through the lens of…

Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535

Roger Bigelow Merriman

This volume is a scholarly attempt to portray Thomas Cromwell as a statesman whose actions were driven by…

The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir

Sir James McCrone Douie

Sir James McCrone Douie’s The Panjab, North‑West Frontier Province, and Kashmir is a comprehensive…

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S.

Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys’s diary is a first‑person chronicle of a London civil servant’s daily life in the early…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 3 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work opens with a sweeping, almost comic appraisal of Reverend Edward Nares’s monumental memoir of…

A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language

Walter Simson

Walter Simson’s A History of the Gipsies is a nineteenth‑century scholarly survey that sets out to document…

The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)

James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude’s three‑volume Reign of Henry the Eighth is a scholarly narrative that situates the…

The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)

Thomas Clarkson

Thomas Clarkson’s 1839 work is a meticulous chronicle of the parliamentary struggle to end the African…

Hertfordshire

Herbert W. Tompkins

The work is a county guide, written by Herbert W. Tompkins in 1903, that sets out to give a concise yet…

Sixty Years a Queen: The Story of Her Majesty's Reign

Sir Herbert Maxwell

Sir Herbert Maxwell’s Sixty Years a Queen offers a sweeping, chronologically organized portrait of Queen…

Farmer George, Volume 2

Lewis Melville

The work is a scholarly examination of the political landscape of Great Britain during the reign of George…