History - British

Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910

Sir William Bower Forwood

The work is an autobiographical memoir of Sir William Bower Forwood, a Liverpool merchant whose life spanned…

Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments

Louise Imogen Guiney

The work is a scholarly compilation that gathers and rearranges material about the short‑lived…

The People of the Abyss

Jack London

The book is a first‑person social investigation by Jack London, written in the summer of 1902 as he…

Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1587

This volume is a scholarly compilation of contemporary extracts that trace the most eventful six years of…

A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II.

Stephen M. Ostrander

Stephen M. Ostrander’s A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II is a comprehensive…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3

François Guizot

François Guizot’s A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 is a nineteenth‑century…

Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 2 (of 4).—1857-1874

Charles L. Graves

Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England, Volume 2 (1857‑1874) is a chronologically organized survey of British…

A Book for a Rainy Day; or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833

John Thomas Smith

The work is a sprawling miscellany of anecdotes, illustrations and personal recollections that John Thomas…

The artillerist's manual and British soldier's compendium

F. A. Griffiths

The work is a sprawling nineteenth‑century handbook for British artillery and infantry, compiled by Major F.

The boke of Saint Albans: Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour

Juliana Berners

The work known as The Book of Saint Albans is a fifteenth‑century compilation that brings together three…

History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It With a Chronological Table of Local Events

John Ackerson Erredge

History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It is a nineteenth‑century antiquarian…

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War

Winston Churchill

The work is a first‑hand account of the 1897 Malakand campaign on the north‑west frontier of British India,…

The Minority of Henry the Third

Kate Norgate

Kate Norgate’s work is a scholarly chronicle of the early years of Henry III, presented as a series of dated…

The Moths of the British Isles, First Series Comprising the Families Sphingidæ to Noctuidæ

Richard South

Richard South’s work is a scholarly survey of the moths that inhabit the British Isles, covering families…

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S.

Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is a meticulously edited record of the 17th‑century English civil servant’s daily…

The Framework of Home Rule

Erskine Childers

The work is a political treatise that sets out a reasoned case for Irish self‑government.

A sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 2 (of 3)

Sir Henry Keppel

The Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London

The Annals of the Barber‑Surgeons of London is a scholarly compilation by Sidney Young, a member of the…

The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2

Thomson, A. T., Mrs.; Wharton, Philip

The work is a sprawling miscellany of anecdotes, sketches and commentary on eighteenth‑century British…

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

Henry A. Beers

The volume is a scholarly continuation of Henry A. Beers’s earlier work on eighteenth‑century English…

British Popular Customs, Present and Past Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People. Arranged According to the Calendar of the Year.

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

British Popular Customs, Present and Past is a Victorian‑era compendium that arranges the folk rites and…

Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations

James Boswell

Boswelliana is a scholarly edition of James Boswell’s personal commonplace book, the notebook in which the…

The American Revolution

John Fiske

John Fiske’s “The American Revolution” is a comprehensive, two‑volume scholarly work that treats the conflict…

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.

David Hume

David Hume’s The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.