History - British

The Grey Friars in Oxford

A. G. Little

The work is a scholarly survey of the Franciscan friars in Oxford, focusing on their external activities…

Sweet Hampstead and Its Associations

Caroline A. White

Caroline A. White’s Sweet Hampstead and Its Associations is a locally‑focused historical survey that sets out…

William Pitt and the Great War

J. Holland Rose

The work is a scholarly biography that treats William Pitt the Younger’s second, war‑time career as a…

Mediæval Military Architecture in England, Volume 1 (of 2)

George Thomas Clark

The work is a scholarly compilation by George Thomas Clark that brings together a series of articles,…

The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century

Wroth, Warwick William; Wroth, Arthur Edgar

The book is a scholarly survey of London’s eighteenth‑century pleasure gardens, compiled by Warwick W.

Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First

Sir William Blackstone

The work is a systematic exposition of English law, originally delivered as a series of lectures at Oxford…

Domestic annals of Scotland: From the Revolution to the Rebellion of 1745

Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers’s Domestic Annals of Scotland continues the series that began with the Reformation, turning…

The Popish Plot: A study in the history of the reign of Charles II

John Pollock

John Pollock’s “The Popish Plot: A Study in the History of the Reign of Charles II” is a scholarly…

History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767

John Richard Green

History of the English People, Volume VII, The Revolution, 1683‑1760; Modern England, 1760‑1767, by John…

The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

E. K. Chambers

The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3 is a scholarly study that examines how the physical settings of English drama…

Survey of London, Volume 05 (of 14), the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, part 2

Riley, William Edward; Gomme, George Laurence

Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater

G. E. Mitton

The work is a detailed topographical guide to three of London’s most celebrated districts, May Mayfair,…

A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718

Wallace Notestein

Wallace Notestein’s work is a scholarly monograph that began as his 1908 Yale doctorate and was later…

History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815

John Richard Green

History of the English People, Volume VIII, Modern England, 1760‑1815, is a scholarly survey by John Richard…

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch

Arthur Dimock

Arthur Dimock’s work is a scholarly survey of St Paul’s Cathedral, tracing its evolution from the obscure…

Haunted London

Walter Thornbury

Walter Thornbury’s Haunted London is a meticulously compiled guide to the capital’s layered past, presented…

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo‑Saxon Chronicle is a composite historical record compiled at the behest of King Alfred the Great…

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

MacGibbon, David; Ross, Thomas

This volume is the third part of MacGibbon and Ross’s exhaustive survey of Scottish ecclesiastical…

The Commune of London, and other studies

John Horace Round

John Horace Round’s The Commune of London, and other studies is a collection of scholarly essays that examine…

The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; Vol. 2 of 4

Robert Wilson

This volume is a detailed chronicle of Queen Victoria’s reign, assembled by Robert Wilson as the second…

The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; Vol. 3 of 4

Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson’s third volume in his four‑part chronicle of Queen Victoria is a dense, encyclopedic account…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macauley’s work is a sweeping political‑historical narrative that begins with a clear…

Ely Cathedral

Anonymous

This work is a nineteenth‑century guide to Ely Cathedral and its surrounding historic sites.

The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)

J. Pringle Thomson

The work is a compact scholarly compilation that attempts to chart the turbulent decades of Scottish history…