History - British

The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2

George Warburton

The work is a detailed historical narrative of the French and British struggle for control of North America…

A History of Lancashire

Henry Fishwick

Henry Fishwick’s A History of Lancashire is a county‑wide survey that sets out to trace the region’s past…

Wellington's Army, 1809-1814

Charles Oman

Charles Oman's Wellington’s Army, 1809‑1814 is a scholarly study that goes beyond the usual campaign…

Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies

John Howie

John Howie’s Biographia Scoticana is a concise biographical compendium that gathers, in a single volume, the…

The companions of Pickle Being a sequel to 'Pickle the spy'

Andrew Lang

The companion volume to Andrew Lang’s “Pickle the Spy” continues the author’s forensic examination of a…

The Better Germany in War Time: Being Some Facts Towards Fellowship

Harold W. Picton

Harold W. Picton’s The Better Germany in War Time is a wartime nonfiction work that seeks to balance the…

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century

Henry A. Beers

This work is a scholarly survey of English Romanticism as it emerged in the eighteenth century, written by…

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

William Carew Hazlitt

The work is a scholarly survey of the history of cooking, beginning with a sweeping observation that…

Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2)

Walter H. Tregellas

Walter H. Tregellas’s two‑volume Cornish Worthies is a biographical compendium that celebrates the men and…

A History of English Prose Fiction

Bayard Tuckerman

Bayard Tuckerman’s A History of English Prose Fiction is a scholarly survey that traces the emergence of…

The Story of the British Army

Charles Cooper King

Charles Cooper King’s work is a comprehensive survey of the British Army’s evolution from its earliest tribal…

The Old Inns of Old England, Volume 1 (of 2) A Picturesque Account of the Ancient and Storied Hostelries of Our Own Country

Charles G. Harper

The work is a scholarly survey of England’s historic public houses, presented as the first volume of a…

Memorials of Old Dorset

The volume is a scholarly survey of Dorset’s antiquities and history, assembled after the untimely death of…

Letters on England

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Letters on England is a series of imagined epistolary sketches in which the French Enlightener…

The Customs of Old England

F. J. Snell

The work is a modestly sized scholarly survey of English customs from the Norman conquest to the late…

The Book of Trinity College Dublin 1591-1891

Trinity College

The volume is a commemorative history of Trinity College Dublin, produced for the tercentenary celebrations…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10

The volume is a sweeping survey of mid‑sixteenth‑century European turmoil, beginning with the accession of…

War Medals and Their History

William Augustus Steward

The work is a comprehensive reference on British military decorations, written by William Augustus Steward,…

Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland

W. H. Davenport Adams

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of magic, alchemy, and witch‑craft in England and Scotland,…

Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America

Edmund Burke

This volume presents Edmund Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with America” together with a substantial…

Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3)

Richard Bagwell

Richard Bagwell’s Ireland under the Tudors is a scholarly narrative of sixteenth‑century Irish history,…

The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 2/2 being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841

Camden Pelham

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.

James Anthony Froude

The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery

John R. Wise

John R. Wise’s “The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery” is a nineteenth‑century topographical study that…