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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.
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Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 40: November/December 1665
by Samuel Pepys
The Holyhead Road: The Mail-coach Road to Dublin. Vol. 2
by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
by Sarah Tytler
The War of Independence
by John Fiske
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans
by Theodore Roosevelt
London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 3
by Henry Mayhew
Notes and Queries for Worcestershire
by John Noake
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
by Horace Walpole
My African Journey
by Winston Churchill
A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893
by A. V. (Albert Venn) Dicey
The Trial of Henry Hetherington, on an Indictment for Blasphemy
by H. (Henry) Hetherington
With Americans of Past and Present Days
by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand
King Henry VIII
by William Shakespeare
The doctor, &c., vol. 2 (of 7)
by Robert Southey
A road-book to old Chelsea
by G. B. (Grace Benedicta) Stuart
Westminster
by Walter Besant, G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton, Mrs. A. Murray Smith
A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II.
by Stephen M. Ostrander
The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses
by James Anthony Froude
Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of SS. Mary & Ethelfleda
by Rev. Thomas Perkins
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See
by C. H. B. (Charles Henry Bourne) Quennell
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
by Various Authors
The Territorial Divisions, 1914-1918
by John Stirling
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
by James Norman Hall
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 18: September/October 1662
by Samuel Pepys
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 57: September 1667
by Samuel Pepys
English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
by Leslie Stephen
Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History
by Jacob Abbott
Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set.
by Thomas Dugdale
A Child's History of England
by Charles Dickens
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
by William Wood
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
by Robert S. (Robert Sangster) Rait
Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace Was Met and Vanquished, with Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships, Nets, Aircraft, &c. &c., Also Describing the Selection and Training of the Enormous Personnel Used in This New Branch of the Navy
by Charles W. (Charles William) Domville-Fife
The romance of Isabel Lady Burton : The story of her life. Volume II
by Lady Isabel Burton, W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins
The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860
by Charles Duke Yonge
Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood
by Grace Greenwood
Oxford
by Andrew Lang
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 07
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Sir Charles Warren and Spion Kop: A Vindication
by Defender
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852
by Charles Greville
The loyalists of America and their times : from 1620 to 1816, Vol. 2 of 2
by Egerton Ryerson
The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain
by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
The Rural Life of England
by William Howitt
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton
The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812 To Which Are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy Act
by James Blake Bailey
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 393, July 1848
by Various Authors
Sea-Power and Other Studies
by Sir Cyprian Bridge
Keltische Mythen en Legenden
by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
The March to Magdala
by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The English Flower Garden with illustrative notes
by Henry Arthur Bright
The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote
by Charles Dudley Warner
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 436, February 1852
by Various Authors
History of the United States of America, Volume 4 (of 9) : During the second administration of Thomas Jefferson
by Henry Adams
Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 2)
by François Guizot
The Taking of Louisburg, 1745
by Samuel Adams Drake
The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2
by Sir Edward Tyas Cook
The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 1, 1837-1843 : A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.
by Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
by Rosalind Northcote
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 5 With a Memoir and Index
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Queen Victoria
by E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) Browne
John Redmond's Last Years
by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
by Various Authors
Letters from England, 1846-1849
by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
The Open Secret of Ireland
by Tom Kettle
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 68: September/October 1668
by Samuel Pepys
The Great Horse; or, The War Horse from the time of the Roman Invasion till its development into the Shire Horse.
by Sir Walter Gilbey
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 71: January 1668-69
by Samuel Pepys
Coronation Anecdotes
by Giles Gossip
Brief History of English and American Literature
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike
by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton
The Life and Times of Alfred the Great Being the Ford lectures for 1901
by Charles Plummer
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832
by Various Authors
The Queen's Reign and Its Commemoration A literary and pictorial review of the period; the story of the Victorian transformation
by Walter Besant
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917
by Various Authors
Geschichte von England seit der Thronbesteigung Jakob's des Zweiten. Neunter Band: enthaltend Kapitel 17 und 18.
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Impressions of South Africa
by Viscount James Bryce Bryce
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Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892
by Friedrich Engels
Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography
by Kenneth Hotham Vickers
Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
by Sir Ernest Scott
North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century
by C. Malcolm Watkins
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S.
by Samuel Pepys
The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17
by Ralph Delahaye Paine
Sniping in France: With notes on the scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers
by H. (Hesketh) Hesketh-Prichard
William Nelson : a memoir
by Sir Daniel Wilson
Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 2 of 6, slice 05 of 12: England, 1154-1189, Henry II
by Raphael Holinshed
A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria; Vol. IV
by François Guizot
The Heroic Record of the British Navy: A Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918
by Archibald Hurd, Sir H. H. (Henry Howarth) Bashford