History - British

The regimental roll of honour and war record of the Artists' Rifles (1/28th, 2/28th and 3/28th battalions, the London Regiment T.F.): Commissions, promotions, appointments and rewards for service in the field obtained by members of the corps since 4th August, 1914

S. Stagoll Higham

Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections

Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

The work is a scholarly biography of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, written by Archibald Philip Primrose,…

British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea With an Account of the Origin of the Flag as a National Device

William Gordon Perrin

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of British naval flags, beginning with a lament that…

Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information

Queensland

Our First Half‑Century is a comprehensive historical survey of Queensland’s development from its colonial…

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3

Thomas Henry Huxley

The third volume of Thomas Henry Huxley’s Life and Letters continues the biographer’s chronicle of the famed…

H.M.I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools

E. M. Sneyd-Kynnersley

The work is a memoir of an English barrister who, after a brief stint in Australia, accepts a government post…

The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times

Richard Davey

Richard Davey’s work is a scholarly biography that places Lady Jane Grey, the “Nine‑Days’ Queen,” within the…

Riches and Poverty (1910)

L. G. Chiozza Money

Riches and Poverty is a statistical and polemical study of the United Kingdom’s wealth distribution as of…

History of the Union Jack and Flags of the Empire

Barlow Cumberland

Barlow Cumberland’s History of the Union Jack and Flags of the Empire is a scholarly survey of British and…

Visits to Fields of Battle, in England, of the Fifteenth Century to which are added, some miscellaneous tracts and papers upon archæological subjects

Richard Brooke

Richard Brooke’s work is a detailed survey of fifteenth‑century English battlefields, beginning with a…

The Fleet: Its Rivers, Prison, and Marriages

John Ashton

John Ashton’s work is a detailed antiquarian study of the River Fleet, its notorious prison, and the…

The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor prison: containing a complete and impartial history of the entire captivity of the Americans in England, from the commencement of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the treaty of Ghent. Also a particular detail of all occurrences relative to the horrid massacre at Dartmoor, on the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815.

C. Andrews

The work is a first‑hand chronicle of American captives taken during the War of 1812, compiled by Charles…

John Redmond's Last Years

Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Stephen L. Gwynn’s work is a scholarly memoir that draws on the private papers of John Redmond, made…

History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400

John Richard Green

John Richard Green’s History of the English People, Volume II is a scholarly narrative that picks up where…

The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old

Charles G. Harper

The work is a Victorian‑era travelogue that treats the historic Portsmouth Road and its off‑shoots as a…

The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852

Charles Greville

Charles Greville’s work is a multi‑volume diary that records the political and social currents of Queen…

The Brighton Road: The Classic Highway to the South

Charles G. Harper

Highways and Byways in London

Emily Constance Baird Cook

Old English Patent Medicines in America

Griffenhagen, George B.; Young, James Harvey

The work is a scholarly historical study of early American patent medicines that originated in England.

The English Constitution

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot’s The English Constitution is a scholarly examination of Britain’s political system as it…

A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention

Patrick Colquhoun

Patrick Colquhoun’s Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis is a systematic survey of crime and disorder in…

The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

Frederic Seebohm

Frederic Seebohm’s work is a scholarly essay in economic history that investigates the English village…

Cambridge

M. A. R. Tuker

M. A. R. Tuker’s work is a compact yet thorough survey of Cambridge University, presented as a series of six…

A book of the west. Volume 2, Cornwall: being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall

S. Baring-Gould