History - British

Mediæval London, Volume 2: Ecclesiastical

Walter Besant

Mary Tudor, Queen of France

Mary Croom Brown

The work is a scholarly biography of Mary Tudor, second daughter of Henry VII and later queen of France,…

A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217 to 1688

David Hannay

David Hannay’s work is a concise, scholarly survey of the Royal Navy from its embryonic stage under King John…

The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America

Thomas Jefferson

This work is the original proclamation of the United States of America, authored chiefly by Thomas Jefferson…

The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See

W. D. Sweeting

The work is a scholarly survey of Peterborough Cathedral, its architecture and the evolution of the episcopal…

The History of Gambling in England

John Ashton

John Ashton’s work is a scholarly survey that treats gambling as a distinct social phenomenon, separating it…

Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest From the Roman De Rou

Wace

Master Wace’s work is a medieval chronicle that records the events surrounding William the Conqueror’s rise,…

King Richard III

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Richard III is a historical drama that dramatizes the final years of the…

Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign

John Ashton

John Ashton’s work is a sprawling compilation of anecdotes, news items and illustrations that aim to preserve…

Henry the Sixth: a reprint of John Blacman's memoir, with translation and notes

John Blakman

This volume is a scholarly re‑print of John Blakman’s early‑sixteenth‑century tract on the “Personality of…

The Trade Signs of Essex A popular account of the origin and meanings of the public houses & other signs

Miller Christy

The Trade Signs of Essex is a scholarly catalogue of the pictorial emblems that once identified inns, taverns…

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

Watkin Tench

Watkin Tench’s work is a first‑hand chronicle of the early years of the British settlement at Port Jackson,…

The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England: A social sketch of the times

John Ashton

Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated

Lang, Andrew; Lang, John

Oxford and Its Story

Cecil Headlam

Cecil Headlam’s Oxford and Its Story is a scholarly yet vividly descriptive history of the university city,…

The British Navy Book

Cyril Field

The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth. Volume 08 of 11.

Lingard, John; Belloc, Hilaire

The work is a comprehensive, chronologically arranged history of England that picks up the narrative where…

The Autobiography of Phineas Pett

Phineas Pett

The work is an autobiographical manuscript of Phineas Pett, a senior ship‑wright and naval commissioner who…

Through England on a side saddle in the time of William and Mary

Celia Fiennes

This work is a travel diary that records Celia Fiennes’s journeys across England during the reign of William…

Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles

Andrew Lang

The work is a scholarly reconstruction of the Jacobite episode that followed the 1745–1746 rebellion,…

Indian Unrest

Sir Valentine Chirol

The work is a collected edition of Sir Valentine Chirol’s series of articles for The Times, assembled to give…

Ancient Man in Britain

Donald A. Mackenzie

The work is a scholarly synthesis of archaeology, anthropology, geology and related sciences that traces the…

Fragments of Two Centuries: Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King

Alfred Kingston

Alfred Kingston’s Fragments of Two Centuries is a modestly sized collection of essays that seeks to sketch…

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S.

Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys’s diary is a first‑person chronicle of daily life in Restoration England, written by the naval…