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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.

by Raphael Holinshed

by William Wood

by Walter Besant

by Frank Fox

by John G. (John George) Edgar

by Anne E. Keeling

by Sarah Tytler

by Dr. (John) Doran

by Justin McCarthy

by Various Authors

by Charles John Griffiths

by Allen French

by Pa.) Daughters of the American Revolution. Pittsburgh Chapter (Pittsburgh

by Louis A. Barbé

by Charles Kingsley

by Thomas Henry Huxley

by Samuel Leech

by Various Authors

by Louis A. Barbé

by Maria Leach

by Various Authors

by James Richard Joy

by Charles Kingsley

by Gilbert Murray

by Joel Tyler Headley

by John Earle

by F.-X. (François-Xavier) Garneau

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Walter Raleigh

by Samuel Pepys

by Raphael Holinshed

by Samuel Pepys

by Samuel Pepys

by Mrs. Frewen Lord, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

by Mowbray Morris

by Samuel Pepys

by Jack London

by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

by Thomas Davis

by Leslie Stephen

by Various Authors

by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

by Various Authors

by Horace Walpole

by Winston Churchill

by Charles Oman

by Queensland

by David Masson

by Sir W. H. (William Henry) Sleeman

by Alfred Marks

by Dr. (John) Doran

by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam

by Clement King Shorter

by Sir J. W. (John William) Fortescue

by L. (Luke) Tyerman

by William Lawrence

by William Shakespeare

by Arthur Acheson

by George Smith

by Alexander Mackenzie

by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

by Frederic W. Woodhouse

by Thomas M'Crie

by W. Keith (William Keith) Leask

by Robert Wilson

by Mrs. A. T. Thomson

by George Warburton

by Andrew Lang

by Arthur Griffiths

by John Stoughton

by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

by Mrs. A. T. Thomson

by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

by Mrs. A. T. Thomson

by G. R. S. (George Richard Sutton) Darroch

by Arthur Griffiths

by T. P. (Thomas Power) O'Connor

by David Hannay

by William Stukeley

by Ellis Cornelia Knight

by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone, William O'Brien

by Various Authors

by Henry Hunt

by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

by Raphael Holinshed