History - British

Some Reminiscences of old Victoria

Edgar Fawcett

Edgar Fawcett’s Some Reminiscences of Old Victoria is a personal memoir that blends family history with a…

State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 1 (of 2)

The work is a curated anthology of historic British state trials, assembled by H. L.

The ecclesiastical architecture of Scotland from the earliest Christian times to the seventeenth century; Vol. 2/3

MacGibbon, David; Ross, Thomas

The work is a scholarly survey of Scotland’s medieval church buildings, concentrating on the First Pointed…

History of the English People, Volume IV

John Richard Green

History of the English People, Volume IV is a scholarly survey that traces the tumultuous transformations of…

The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815

Z. F. Smith

Z.F. Smith’s work is a scholarly history of the Battle of New Orleans, presented as the nineteenth Filson…

The History of London

Walter Besant

Coronation Anecdotes

Giles Gossip

Coronation Anecdotes is a scholarly miscellany that gathers together the legends, symbols and historical…

Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918

Sir C. E. (Charles Edward) Callwell

The work is a first‑hand account by Sir C. E. Callwell, a senior British officer who served as Director of…

A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum

Anonymous

This work is a fifteenth‑century chronicle that records the history of London from the reign of Richard I in…

Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900

A. T. Mahan

The work is a historical study of the South African War of 1899‑1902, written by the American naval officer…

The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1

Frederick Whymper

Frederick Whymper’s The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism is a sprawling survey of…

Charles I Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that sets out to tell the life of Charles I for a young…

Raleigh

Edmund Gosse

The work is a scholarly biography of Sir Walter Raleigh that situates his life apart from the broader…

Henry VIII.

A. F. Pollard

The work is a scholarly attempt to give a concise yet comprehensive portrait of Henry VIII, the Tudor monarch…

London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

Reginald R. Sharpe

Reginald R. Sharpe’s London and the Kingdom is a scholarly survey that treats the City of London not merely…

A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time

Charles Creighton

Charles Creighton’s second volume continues the systematic survey he began three years earlier, tracing…

Old English libraries: the making, collection, and use of books during the Middle Ages

Ernest Albert Savage

Ernest Albert Savage’s work is a scholarly survey of medieval English libraries, tracing the production,…

Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 5—The Church of the Revolution

John Stoughton

The work is a scholarly ecclesiastical history that continues John Stoughton’s multi‑volume survey of the…

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899

Louis Creswicke

Louis Creswicke’s first volume of “South Africa and the Transvaal War” is a comprehensive historical study…

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

Bede, the Venerable, Saint

This work is a scholarly edition of the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England, a chronicle that…

Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that treats the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, as a…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay’s fourth volume of The History of England continues his sweeping chronicle of the…

Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 2 (of 2)

Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers’s Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution is a chronologically…

The history of England, from the earliest times to the Norman Conquest

Thomas Hodgkin

Thomas Hodgkin’s first volume of a twelve‑part political history of England presents a scholarly overview…