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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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A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
by Dutton Cook
The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More
by Frederic Seebohm
English Monastic Life
by Francis Aidan Gasquet
A Book of Cornwall
by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
My Experiences as an Executioner
by James Berry
King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855
by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire. 1796 to 1816
by Thomas (Thomas James) Walker
Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
by Oxford University Press
Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign
by John Ashton
Mediæval Military Architecture in England, Volume 2 (of 2)
by George Thomas Clark
The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth A history of the various negotiations for her marriage
by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume
The Fleet: Its Rivers, Prison, and Marriages
by John Ashton
Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement
by Esther (of Hampstead) Wood
An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites With a List of the Meteorites Represented in the Collection
by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Mineralogy, L. (Lazarus) Fletcher
Warwickshire: The Land of Shakespeare
by Clive Holland
William Harvey
by Sir D'Arcy Power
A Guide to the Exhibition of English Medals
by British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals, Herbert A. (Herbert Appold) Grueber
History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition
by Sir John William Kaye
Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 1 of 2
by Baron Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton
Seeing and Hearing
by George William Erskine Russell
Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson
by William Beatty
Cassell's History of England, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Peninsular War to the Death of Sir Robert Peel
by Anonymous
The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882
by Joseph Wild
With the Ulster Division in France A Story of the 11th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles (South Antrim Volunteers), From Bordon to Thiepval.
by Arthur Purefoy Irwin) A. P. I. (Samuels S., Dorothy Gage Samuels
Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections
by Earl of Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
by Archibald Forbes
The Jewel House: An Account of the Many Romances Connected with the Royal Regalia Together with Sir Gilbert Talbot's Account of Colonel Blood's Plot
by G. J. (George John) Younghusband
History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814, vol. 6
by William Francis Patrick Napier
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Tea and Tea Drinking
by Arthur Reade
Wood Carvings in English Churches I. Stalls and Tabernacle Work. II. Bishop's Thrones and Chancel Chairs.
by Francis Bond
The Gold-Headed Cane
by William Macmichael
The History of Duelling. Vol. 2 (of 2)
by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Histoire de Marie Stuart
by Jean-Marie Dargaud
Our Army at the Front
by Heywood Broun
Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion
by Nathaniel Hodges, John Quincy
The Days Before Yesterday
by Lord Frederic Hamilton
An Old English Home and Its Dependencies
by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 2 (of 2) : Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761
by Mrs. (Elizabeth) Montagu
A history of Canada, 1763-1812
by Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland)
by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Biographical Catalogue of the Portraits at Panshanger, the Seat of Earl Cowper, K.G.
by Mary Louisa Boyle
Books Condemned to be Burnt
by James Anson Farrer
Daniel Defoe
by William Minto
The Tragedy of St. Helena
by Baron Walter Runciman Runciman
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
by Various Authors
Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days
by Emily Henrietta Hickey
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
by Edward Robins
The Cornish Riviera
by Sidney Heath
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832
by Various Authors
The Great Musicians: Purcell
by William Hayman Cummings
Empire Partnership
by John Wesley Dafoe
Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734)
by Jonathan Swift, J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly
Windjammers and Sea Tramps
by Baron Walter Runciman Runciman
The "Wearing of the Green," or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession
by A. M. (Alexander Martin) Sullivan
King Henry IV, Part 1
by William Shakespeare
Liverpool a few years since: by an old stager
by James Aspinall
The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1916
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Spider Web: The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight
by T. D. Hallam
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Monk
by Julian Stafford Corbett
Coaching Days & Ways
by E. D. (Edward William Dirom) Cuming
Personal sketches of his own times, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by Sir Jonah Barrington
The Story of the Bank of England (A History of English Banking, and a Sketch of the Money Market)
by Henry Warren
The Scott Country
by John Geddie
The Early History of the Post in Grant and Farm
by James Wilson Hyde
Hugh Miller
by W. Keith (William Keith) Leask
General Gordon, Saint and Soldier
by Joseph Wardle
Chats on English China
by Arthur Hayden
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 129, April 17, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Admiral Jellicoe
by Arthur Applin
A Dialogue upon the Gardens of the Right Honorouble the Lord Viscount Cobham at Stow in Buckinghamshire
by William Gilpin
Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caueat, Haben's Sermon, &c.
by active 1559-1577 John Awdelay, Parson Haben, active 1567 Thomas Harman
The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First
by Sir John Hayward
A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald"
by Thomas Anderton
Fires and Firemen: from the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Vol XXXV No. 1, May 1855
by Anonymous
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 35: May/June 1665
by Samuel Pepys
Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Alice Stopford Green
Elizabeth Hooton : First Quaker woman preacher (1600-1672)
by Emily Manners
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 47: November 1666
by Samuel Pepys
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832
by Various Authors
Gladstonian Ghosts
by Cecil Chesterton
Some of Our East Coast Towns
by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Pondichéry, hoofdstad van Fransch-Indië De Aarde en haar Volken, 1906
by Gerrit Verschuur