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From cloistered chronicles and medieval feuds to imperial wars, scandalous trials, and the thunder of the Victorian age, this bookshelf sweeps through the making of Britain in all its grandeur and contradiction. Here are kings and reformers, generals and engineers, highways and battlefields, superstition and statecraft—voices from centuries of upheaval building a nation before your ears. Step in for a journey where history feels less like a record and more like a rising drama.
302 Audiobooks
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
The Trial of Oscar Wilde, from the Shorthand Reports
by Charles Grolleau
King Richard III
by William Shakespeare
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes
by Charles Babbage
King Richard III
by William Shakespeare
Old Church Lore
by William Andrews
The Galaxy, March, 1877 Vol. XXIII, No. 3
by Various Authors
The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
by Samuel Pepys
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Old English libraries : $b the making, collection, and use of books during the Middle Ages
by Ernest Albert Savage
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England
by Saint the Venerable Bede
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "English History" Volume 9, Slice 5
by Various Authors
Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely
by John William Edward Conybeare
The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson
by Robert Southey
The Great Boer War
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and Country
by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum)
by active 796 Nennius
Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History
by Paul Vinogradoff
Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life
by Countess of Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers Jersey
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
A Child's History of England
by Charles Dickens
Letters on England
by Voltaire
Men of Invention and Industry
by Samuel Smiles
The People of the Abyss
by Jack London
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections
by Earl of Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old
by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
The Brighton Road: The Classic Highway to the South
by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
The English Constitution
by Walter Bagehot
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree
by Louis Creswicke
Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
A Book of Remarkable Criminals
by H. B. (Henry Brodribb) Irving
The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion
by Robert Turnbull
The Commercial Restraints of Ireland
by John Hely-Hutchinson
Royalty Restored; Or, London Under Charles II
by J. Fitzgerald (Joseph Fitzgerald) Molloy
The History of the Post Office, from Its Establishment Down to 1836
by Herbert Joyce
The Description of Wales
by Cambrensis Giraldus
Eminent Victorians
by Lytton Strachey
In Darkest England, and the Way Out
by William Booth
Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone
by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
by R. H. (Rees Howell) Gronow
On the Ruin of Britain
by Gildas
A Book of Scoundrels
by Charles Whibley
Extracts from the Diary of William Bray
by William Bray
The influence and development of English gilds : $b as illustrated by the history of the craft gilds of Shrewsbury
by Francis Aidan Hibbert
The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat'
by active 1559-1577 John Awdelay, active 1567 Thomas Harman
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland
by Henry B. (Henry Brewster) Stanton
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
The Ancien Régime
by Charles Kingsley
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 70: December 1668
by Samuel Pepys
Landholding in England
by F.R.H.S. Joseph Fisher
England in the Days of Old
by William Andrews
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa
by Louis Eugène Du Moulin
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth; with Fragmenta regalia or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favourites
by Paul Hentzner, Sir Robert Naunton
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
by Samuel Pepys
Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722
by Daniel Defoe
Heroes of Science: Physicists
by William Garnett
King Henry VI, Part 1
by William Shakespeare
London's Underworld
by Thomas Holmes
Shakespeare's England
by William Winter
William the Conqueror
by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman
King Henry VI, Part 1
by William Shakespeare
King Richard II
by William Shakespeare
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
by active 1602 Edward Hayes
Letters from England, 1846-1849
by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated
by Edmund Sharpe
Cornwall
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
From Crow-Scaring to Westminster: An Autobiography
by Sir George Edwards
On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge
by Thomas Henry Huxley
A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second
by Charles James Fox
London in 1731
by Don Manoel Gonzales
King Richard III
by William Shakespeare
A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation
by Robert Williams
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666
by Samuel Pepys
King Henry VIII
by William Shakespeare
The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and Literature
by Cleland Boyd McAfee
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
by Richard Hakluyt
William Ewart Gladstone
by Viscount James Bryce Bryce
Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses
by Andrew Macgeorge
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 40: November/December 1665
by Samuel Pepys
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 60: December 1667
by Samuel Pepys
Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws, and of a Rise or Fall in the Price of Corn on the Agriculture and General Wealth of the Country
by T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus
Queen Victoria as I Knew Her
by Sir Theodore Martin
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 67: August 1668
by Samuel Pepys
