History - British

"Brother Bosch", an Airman's Escape from Germany

Gerald Featherstone Knight

Gerald Featherstone Knight’s “Brother Bosch” is a first‑person wartime memoir that blends combat narrative…

English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century

Leslie Stephen

The work is a scholarly lecture series by Sir Leslie Stephen, originally delivered at Oxford in 1903, that…

Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire

W. F. Rawnsley

W. F. Rawnsley’s Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire is a detailed travel guide that maps the county’s…

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

G. H. Palmer

The work is a detailed architectural and historical survey of Rochester Cathedral, written by George Henry…

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 2 (of 2): Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761

Mrs. Montagu

This volume gathers the letters of Elizabeth Montagu, the celebrated “queen of the Bluestocking Society,”…

The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See

Hartley Withers

Hartley Withers’s second‑edition work is a scholarly survey of Canterbury Cathedral’s architecture and the…

Asser's Life of King Alfred

John Asser

Asser’s Life of King Alfred is a medieval chronicle that purports to be a contemporary account of the…

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters

Jonathan Swift

The volume gathers Jonathan Swift’s “Drapier’s Letters,” a series of political pamphlets written in the early…

The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 1 (of 2): Being a History of the Ancient and Modern Pottery and Porcelain Works of the Kingdom and of Their Productions of Every Class

Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt

Llewellynn F. W. Jewitt’s The Ceramic Art of Great Britain is a scholarly survey that traces the development…

The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields

Gilbert Slater

Gilbert Slater’s work is a scholarly investigation of the transformation of English village life through the…

British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

Wirt Sikes

British Goblins is a scholarly survey of Welsh folklore that treats the myriad fairy beings, ghosts, customs…

The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct” is a contemporary, polemical account of…

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum

Gleeson White

This work is a scholarly guide to Salisbury Cathedral, combining a detailed architectural description with a…

The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.)

C. R. M. F. Cruttwell

The work is a regimental history of the 1/4 Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, compiled by C. R. M.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See

W. D. Sweeting

Walter Debenham Sweeting’s work is a scholarly survey of Ely Cathedral, its architecture, monastic history,…

John Knox

A. Taylor Innes

The work is a scholarly biography of John Knox, the Scottish reformer born around 1514, assembled from the…

The dissolution of the monasteries: As illustrated by the suppression of the religious houses of Staffordshire

Francis Aidan Hibbert

Francis Aidan Hibbert’s work is a scholarly investigation of the Dissolution of the monasteries as it…

The Survey of London

John Stow

The Survey of London is a seventeenth‑century antiquarian topography that blends personal reminiscence with…

The Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical Study

A. D. Smith

The work is a scholarly investigation of postal pricing, written by Alfred Daniel Smith, an economist who…

A history of tithes

Henry William Clarke

Henry William Clarke’s A History of Tithes is a scholarly rebuttal to earlier authorities on the medieval…

History of English Literature Volume 1 (of 3)

Hippolyte Taine

The work is a nineteenth‑century French‑born literary history, translated into English and presented in three…

Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

T. Rice Holmes

Thomas Rice Holmes’s work is a scholarly survey that seeks to trace the whole sweep of British prehistory up…

The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham College, Oxford; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester

P. A. Wright Henderson

This work is a modest tribute to Wadham College on the occasion of its three‑centenary, penned by Wright…

The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892

Friedrich Engels

The work is Friedrich Engels’s 1844 survey of the English working‑class, first published in German in 1845…