History - British

To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir; Cameron, Verney Lovett

The work is a two‑volume travel memoir by Sir Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron, chronicling…

English Costume

Dion Clayton Calthrop

The work is a sweeping survey of English civil dress, tracing the evolution of everyday clothing from the…

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 2

Henry Mayhew

The work is a meticulously researched social survey of the street‑trading world that underpinned Victorian…

Men of Invention and Industry

Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles’s Men of Invention and Industry is a biographical survey of the engineers, shipbuilders, and…

A history of England

Charles Oman

Charles Oman’s A History of England offers a single‑volume survey that seeks a middle ground between…

How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine

W. T. Massey

The work is a contemporary military narrative by W. T. Massey, written in April 1919, that records the…

Byways in British Archaeology

Walter Johnson

Byways in British Archaeology is a scholarly survey of the lingering traces of pre‑Christian belief in the…

Cassell's History of England, Vol. 4 (of 8) From the Fall of Marlborough to the Peninsular War

Anonymous

Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 2

John Hill Burton

The work is a scholarly compilation of David Hume’s later life, assembled from papers bequeathed by his…

The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 2 (of 2)

Charles Mills

The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 2 is a sweeping survey of medieval martial…

The Social History of Smoking

George Latimer Apperson

The work is a scholarly survey of how English society has treated tobacco from the early seventeenth century…

The castles and abbeys of England; Vol. 1 of 2 from the national records, early chronicles, and other standard authors

William Beattie

The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester To which is added a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a Commentary thereon.

Henry Dircks

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly memoir that seeks to assemble, for the first time, a coherent…

Jane Austen's sailor brothers: Being the adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen

Hubback, J. H. (John Henry); Hubback, Edith C.

The work is a family‑produced biography that intertwines the naval careers of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B.,…

English Industries of the Middle Ages Being an Introduction to the Industrial History of Medieval England

L. F. Salzman

The work is a scholarly survey of England’s pre‑Elizabethan industrial landscape, presented as an…

What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence

John Gerard

John Gerard’s work is a scholarly reassessment of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, presented as a single‑volume study…

Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood from A.D. 46 to 1884

William Finch-Crisp

William Finch‑Crisp’s Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood is a dense,…

Old times: A picture of social life at the end of the eighteenth century

John Ashton

John Ashton’s work is a social‑history collage built from the daily newspapers of late eighteenth‑century…

The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story

Frank Harris

Frank Harris’s work is a biographical‑critical study that treats William Shakespeare not merely as a…

Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The volume is a collection of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s parliamentary speeches, assembled after a bitter…

The Growth of English Drama

Arnold Wynne

Arnold Wynne’s The Growth of English Drama is a scholarly survey that sets out to fill the gaps left by…

A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3

George Elliott Howard

Celtic Scotland: A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and culture

W. F. Skene

William Forbes Skene’s second volume of Celtic Scotland is a scholarly survey of the early Celtic Church and…

The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc.

C. F. G. Clark