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History - British

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.

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A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions Shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessements, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c.; with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning warres, the church, universities, rents & purchases, usury & exchange, banks & lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money [&] wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, &c.; the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland.

by Sir William Petty

The Gipsies' Advocate Or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of the English Gipsies

by James Crabb

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 278, Supplementary Number (1828)

by Various Authors

Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover With an Enquiry How Far the Abdication of King James, Supposing It to Be Legal, Ought to Affect the Person of the Pretender

by Daniel Defoe

The Bitter Cry of Outcast London An Inquiry into the Condition of the Abject Poor

by Andrew Mearns, William C. Preston

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 335, October 11, 1828

by Various Authors

Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan

by William Taylor

Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire, Regiment of Foot, Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its Subsequent Services to 1847

by Richard Cannon

Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844.

by Richard Cannon

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 04: March/April 1659-1660

by Samuel Pepys

An Exposition of the Last Psalme

by John Boys

A Defence of the Hessians

by J. G. (Joseph George) Rosengarten

Storia d'Inghilterra, vol 1

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

London in the Jacobite times, Volume I

by Dr. (John) Doran

The works of Richard Hurd, volume 8 (of 8)

by Richard Hurd

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 20: January/February 1662-63

by Samuel Pepys

Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. with an account of the Harmonies

by John Edward Acland

Personal Narrative of Events, From 1799 to 1815

by William Stanhope Lovell

La reine Victoria intime Ouvrage illustré de 60 gravures d'après des photographies et des documents inédits

by J.-H. Aubry

An Account of the Growth of Deism in England

by William Stephens

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831

by Various Authors

The Vampire of the Continent

by Graf E. (Ernst) Reventlow

An Open Letter to the Right Honorable David Lloyd George Prime Minister of Great Britain

by Lala Lajpat Rai

Peeps at many lands: Wales

by E. M. (Ethel Mary) Wilmot-Buxton

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 63: March 1667-68

by Samuel Pepys

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 27: March 1663-64

by Samuel Pepys

The religious and loyal subject's duty considered: with regard to the present Government and the Revolution A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, on Wednesday, January 30, 1722-3

by Isaac Terry

Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, jun., on a Charge of Slave Trading, under 5 Geo. IV, cap. 113, on Friday the 27th, Saturday the 28th, and Monday the 30th of October, 1843, at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London A Full Report from the Short-hand Notes of W. B. Gurney, Esq.

by Pedro de Zulueta, William Brodie Gurney

Historical record of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons;—Lancers Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1759 and of its subsequent services to 1841.

by Richard Cannon

Military Service and Adventures in the Far East: Vol. 2 (of 2) Including Sketches of the Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6.

by Daniel Henry MacKinnon

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 39: October 1665

by Samuel Pepys

My Memory of Gladstone

by Goldwin Smith

Sir Isaac Brock

by Hugh S. (Hugh Sterling) Eayrs

Geschichte von England seit der Thronbesteigung Jakob's des Zweiten. Elfter Band: enthaltend Kapitel 21 und 22.

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

George Borrow's Second Tour in Wales

by T. C. (Thomas Crosbee) Cantrill, George Borrow, J. (John) Pringle

Statement of Facts, on the Injurious Treatment of J. Elsee, Esq. Late Tenant of a Considerable Portion of Havering Park Farm, in the Forest of Hainault, in Certain Transactions with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and Their Agents; To Which Are Added Notes in Illustration of the Gross Abuses of the Forest Laws.

by John Elsee

Kuningas Henrik Kuudes III

by William Shakespeare

The New Departure; Or, Thoughts for Loyal Churchmen

by Edward Hoare

Az angol irodalom története

by Géza Voinovich

Agricola

by Cornelius Tacitus

From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors

by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford

by Baron Charles William De la Poer Beresford Beresford

Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II

by Sir John Ross

Lectures on the French Revolution

by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

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

by Gerald Featherstone Knight

The Library of William Congreve

by William Congreve

Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater

by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

The English Constitution

by Walter Bagehot

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster

by active 1612-1618 Thomas Potts

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S.

by Samuel Pepys

The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

by George Cavendish

Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

by John Horace Round

English and American tool builders

by Joseph Wickham Roe

Yachting, Vol. 2

by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett, G. L. Blake, Marquis of Frederick Temple Blackwood Dufferin and Ava, James McFerran, T. B. Middleton

King Henry V Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre

by William Shakespeare

Haunted London

by Walter Thornbury

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4

by Various Authors

Chaucer and His England

by G. G. (George Gordon) Coulton

History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name

by Alexander Mackenzie

Grave-mounds and Their Contents A Manual of Archæology, as Exemplified in the Burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon Periods

by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt

The Chronicles of Newgate, vol. 1/2

by Arthur Griffiths

The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)

Wellington's Army, 1809-1814

by Charles Oman

Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1

by Duke of Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos

Eminent Victorians

by Lytton Strachey

The boke of Saint Albans : containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour

by Juliana Berners

Memorials of Old London. Volume 2 (of 2)

The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6)

by John Knox

English Poor Law Policy

by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb

The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne

by Andrew A. (Andrew Alexander) Bonar

The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922

by C. G. Bruce

Cambridge and Its Story

by Charles William Stubbs

The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789)

by Arthur Phillip

A History of Science — Volume 5

by Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams

The Tower of London, (Vol. 1 of 2)

by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower

Life and Character of Richard Carlile

by George Jacob Holyoake

Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 1 of 6, slice 1 of 9. England, geography

by Raphael Holinshed, William Harrison, John Hooker

Prime Ministers and Some Others: A Book of Reminiscences

by George William Erskine Russell

Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia

by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Concerning the bi-literal cypher of Francis Bacon discovered in his works

by Elizabeth Wells Gallup

A Book of Scoundrels

by Charles Whibley

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S.

by Samuel Pepys

Cathedral Cities of England

by George Gilbert

Milton's England

by Lucia True Ames Mead

Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3

by Henry Hallam

History of the Post-Office Packet Service between the years 1793-1815 Compiled from Records, Chiefly Official

by Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton) Norway

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844

by Various Authors

Her Majesty's Mails An Historical and Descriptive Account of the British Post-Office

by William Lewins

The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance

by James Wilson Hyde

The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer

by Lewis Henry Berens

The Mystery of Mary Stuart

by Andrew Lang

The Baronial Halls, and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England; Vol. 1 of 2

by S. C. (Samuel Carter) Hall

A Short History of English Music

by Ernest Ford

Ancient Man in Britain

by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

Folk lore : or, Superstitious beliefs in the west of Scotland within this century

by James Napier

Stained Glass Tours in England

by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill

The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated

by J. Collingwood (John Collingwood) Bruce

The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences

by Sir John Barrow

An Essay on the Trial by Jury

by Lysander Spooner

Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District

by Frederick Sessions