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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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Florizel's Folly
by John Ashton
England's effort : Letters to an American friend
by Mrs. Humphry Ward
The Women's Victory—and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918
by Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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
Our English Towns and Villages
by H. R. Wilton Hall
Life of Thomas à Becket
by Henry Hart Milman
The Acts of Uniformity: Their Scope and Effect
by T. A. (Thomas Alexander) Lacey
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV
by Justin McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times
by John Thomas Smith
Through England on a side saddle in the time of William and Mary
by Celia Fiennes
Chitta Ranjan
by Sukumar Ranjan Das
Crécy
by Hilaire Belloc
The Men of the Merchant Service Being the polity of the mercantile marine for 'longshore readers
by Frank Thomas Bullen
Scottish Reminiscences
by Archibald Geikie
Wit and Wisdom of Lord Tredegar
by Godfrey Charles Morgan
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832
by Various Authors
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828
by Various Authors
La fiancée du rebelle: Épisode de la Guerre des Bostonnais, 1775
by Joseph Marmette
Lives of Famous London Beggars With Forty Portraits of the Most Remarkable.
by John Thomas Smith
The Village Sunday School, with brief sketches of three of its scholars
by John C. (John Christian) Symons
English monasteries : From Saxon days to their dissolution
by J. Charles (John Charles) Cox
Submerged forests
by Clement Reid
Notes and Queries, Number 226, February 25, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Secret History of To-day: Being Revelations of a Diplomatic Spy
by Allen Upward
My German Prisons Being the Experiences of an Officer During Two and a Half Years as a Prisoner of War
by Horace Gray Gilliland
My Mission to London, 1912-1914
by Fürst von Karl Max Lichnowsky
Some War Impressions
by Jeffery Farnol
Cussons' Horncastle Compendium, 1837
by David Cussons
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 73: April/May 1669
by Samuel Pepys
Gibraltar and Its Sieges, with a Description of Its Natural Features.
by Frederic George Stephens
York De Aarde en haar Volken, 1909
by G. Bosch
Etching in England With 50 illustrations.
by Sir Frederick Wedmore
The New Army in Training
by Rudyard Kipling
The Oregon Question
by Albert Gallatin
The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 16, October 17, 1840
by Various Authors
The Story of a Peninsular Veteran Sergeant in the Forty-Third Light Infantry, during the Peninsular War
by Anonymous
Gypsy Coppersmiths in Liverpool and Birkenhead
by R. A. Scott (Robert Andrew Scott) Macfie
London Cries & Public Edifices
by John Leighton
The Sabbath and the Crystal Palace
by Anonymous
The Life of Col. James Gardiner
by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
A négy György : Kor-rajzi képek az angol udvari és városi életből
by William Makepeace Thackeray
"Bear ye one another's burdens." A Plain Sermon on the Lancashire Distress
by James Galloway Cowan
Primrose Hill Park, Regent's Park, and Hampstead Heath
by William Ray Smee
Richard Lejonhjerta i historien och poesin: Akademisk afhandling
by Carl Gustaf Estlander
History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660
by John Richard Green
The Facts About Shakespeare
by William Allan Neilson, Ashley Horace Thorndike
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.
by Alice Bertha Gomme
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3
by George Elliott Howard
English Costume
by Dion Clayton Calthrop
A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300
by Herbert Coleridge
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
A Short History of English Agriculture
by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler
The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History
by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume
The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. V. Being the First of the Third Voyage
by James Cook
Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar
by T. Rice (Thomas Rice) Holmes
Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire
by W. F. (Willingham Franklin) Rawnsley
Lion and Dragon in Northern China
by Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston
Edinburgh Under Sir Walter Scott
by W. T. Fyfe
Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
by Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake
Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699
by Walter Stitt Robinson
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Volume 1 (of 2) From the Formation of the Corps in March 1712 to the date when its designation was changed to that of Royal Engineers
by T. W. J. (Thomas William John) Connolly
The Colonial Clippers
by Basil Lubbock
With the Flag to Pretoria: A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900. Volume 1
by Herbert Wrigley Wilson
Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses
by Andrew Macgeorge
Mary Tudor, Queen of France
by Mary Croom Brown
Ancient Streets and Homesteads of England
by Alfred Rimmer
History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition
by Thomas Miller
Echoes of Old Lancashire
by William E. A. (William Edward Armytage) Axon
Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
by Arthur Herbert Savory
Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present
by John Timbs
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
by W. D. (Walter Debenham) Sweeting
Indian Unrest
by Sir Valentine Chirol
The Story of Westminster Abbey
by Violet Brooke-Hunt
Social Forces in England and America
by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
South with Scott
by Baron Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans
The Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life
by S. C. (Sydney Castle) Roberts
General Gordon : A Christian hero
by Seton Churchill
The Crisis of the Naval War
by John Rushworth Jellicoe
Hyde Park from Domesday-book to Date
by John Ashton
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
by Earl of James Bruce Elgin
Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by John Ashton
Animal life of the British Isles : a pocket guide to the mammals, reptiles and batrachians of wayside and woodland
by Edward Step
England under the Tudors
by Arthur D. (Arthur Donald) Innes
