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Filed under: Great Britain

The New Britain (Headline Series #114; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1955), by R. K. Webb (multiple formats at archive.org)
Our British Ally (1944), by Herbert Heaton (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Short Guide to Great Britain (ca. 1942), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division
Britain's Place in the Great Plan: Four Lectures delivered in London, June and July 1921, by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)

Filed under: Great Britain -- Antiquities

Altering the Earth: The Origins of Monuments in Britain and Continental Europe (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1993), by Richard Bradley (PDF files at ADS)
Proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, at Winchester, September, MDCCCXLV (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; et al., 1846), by Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
William Stukeley: Science, Religion, and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England (c2002), by David Boyd Haycock (HTML at Newton Project; sections may be listed out of order)
The Clyde Mystery: A Study in Forgeries and Folklore (Glasgow: J. MacLehose and Sons, 1905), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Primitive Folk-Moots: or, Open-Air Assemblies in Britain (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1880), by George Laurence Gomme (PDF at McMaster)
Scientific Papers and Addresses (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1884), by George Rolleston, ed. by Wm. Turner, contrib. by Edward B. Tylor (page images at HathiTrust)
Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered (1906), by Norman Lockyer (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps and Sites, by Alfred Watkins (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

Filed under: Great Britain -- Antiquities, Celtic

The Testimony of Tradition (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1890), by David MacRitchie (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Great Britain -- Antiquities, Roman

Roman Roads in Britain (reprint of the third edition; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Thomas Codrington (multiple formats at archive.org)
Wanderings of an Antiquary: Chiefly Upon the Traces of the Romans in Britain (London: J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1854), by Thomas Wright (page images in Germany)
Hadrian's Wall (London: John Lane, 1922), by Jessie Mothersole
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Historical Researches on the Wars and Sports of the Mongols and Romans; in Which Elephants and Wild Beasts Were Employed or Slain, and the Remarkable Local Agreement of History With the Remains of Such Animals Found in Europe and Siberia (London: Printed for the author and sold by Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826), by John Ranking
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Great Britain -- Bibliography

The English Catalogue of Books (partial serial archives)
A Checklist of American Copies of "Short-Title Catalogue" Books (second edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950), ed. by William Warner Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Great Britain -- Bio-bibliography

Dictionary of National Biography (first and second editions, with supplementary volumes; 1885-1912), ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (multiple formats at Google and archive.org)
Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1903), ed. by Sidney Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland and Ireland; With Lists of Their Works (enlarged and continued; 5 volumes; London: Printed for J. Scott, 1806), by Horace Walpole and Thomas Park
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, With Lists of Their Works (new edition; Edinburgh: Printed for W.H. Lunn, et al., 1796), by Horace Walpole (multiple formats at Google)

Filed under: Great Britain -- Biography

"True Biographies of Nations?" The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography (Acton, ACT: ANU Press, 2019), ed. by Karen Fox (multiple formats with commentary at ANU Press)
Fifty Years' Recollections, Literary and Personal (based on the 1858 edition, with annotated names; 2010), by Cyrus Redding, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
Mary Warnock: Ethics, Education and Public Policy in Post-War Britain (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by P. J. Graham (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Reminiscences of a Literary Life (based on the 1917 J. Murray edition, with annotated names; 2012), by Charles MacFarlane, ed. by John Tattersall and David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
Dictionary of National Biography (first and second editions, with supplementary volumes; 1885-1912), ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (multiple formats at Google and archive.org)
Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1903), ed. by Sidney Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey
- HTML at Bartleby
- Gutenberg text
Great Englishmen: An Historical Reading Book for Schools (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1911), by M. B. Synge (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
Men Who Have Made the Empire (third edition; London: C. A. Pearson, 1899), by George Chetwynd Griffith, illust. by Stanley L. Wood
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Personalia: Intimate Recollections of Famous Men, Political, Literary, Artistic, Social, Various (published under "Sigma" pseudonym; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Julian Osgood Field
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Portraits, Memoirs and Characters, of Remarkable Persons From the Reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution, Collected From the Most Authentic Accounts Extant (new edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for R. S. Kirby, 1813), by James Caulfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Studies in Contemporary Biography (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), by James Bryce (Gutenberg text)
Uncensored Celebrities (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919), by E. T. Raymond (page images at HathiTrust)
A Circle of Friends: the Tennysons and the Lushingtons (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by John O. Waller (PDF at Ohio State)
Celebrated Cambridge Men, A.D. 1390-1908 (Cambridge, UK: A. P. Dixon; London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1910), by C. G. Griffinhoofe
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; To Which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq.; and Lives of Eminent Men (2 volumes in 3; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813), ed. by John Walker, contrib. by John Aubrey and Thomas Hearne
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II, Part I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II, Part II: multiple formats at archive.org
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
Stories of Old Families (Edinburgh and London: W. and R. Chambers, 1878), by William Chambers
- multiple formats at Google
- PDF (without illustrations) at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Nabobs in England: A Study of the Returned Anglo-Indian, 1760-1785 (Columbia University PhD dissertation; 1926), by James M. Holzman (page images at HathiTrust)
Fly Leaves: or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous, Consisting of Notes on Antiquarian and Historical Subjects, Collections Towards Neglected Biography, Memorials of Old London, Choice Specimens of Ancient Poetry, Chiefly From Unpublished Mss., Scraps and Sketches, Curious and Interesting, With Numerous Bibliographical Notices, etc., etc. (London: J. Miller, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of Eminent Etonians; With Notices of the Early History of Eton College (London: R. Bentley, 1850), by Edward Shepherd Creasy (multiple formats at Google)
Alumni Etonenses: or, A Catalogue of the Provosts and Fellows of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, From the Foundation in 1443, to the Year 1797, With an Account of Their Lives and Preferments (Birmingham: Printed by T. Pearson, 1797), by Thomas Harwood (page images at HathiTrust)
"Brief Lives", Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between the Years 1669 and 1696 (2 volumes; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1898), by John Aubrey, ed. by Andrew Clark
- Volume I (A-H): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (I-Y): multiple formats at archive.org
- both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Great Britain -- Charters, grants, privileges

The Medieval English Borough: Studies on Its Origins and Constitutional History (1936), by James Tait (PDF at McMaster; NO US ACCESS)

Filed under: Great Britain -- Church history

The Church History of Britain, From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year M.DC.XLVIII (new edition, 6 volumes; Oxford: At the University Press, 1845), by Thomas Fuller, ed. by J. S. Brewer
The Papal Tyranny, As it Was Exercised over England for Some Ages (London: H. Brome, 1674), by Pierre Du Moulin and Peter Du Moulin
The Church, Past and Present: A Review of its History by the Bishop of London, Bishop Barry, and Other Writers (New York: T. Whittaker, ca. 1899), ed. by Henry Melvill Gwatkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
History of Dissenters, From the Revolution in 1688, to the Year 1808 (4 volumes; London: Printed for the authors, 1808-1812), by David Bogue and James Bennett
Sodor and Man, by A. W. Moore (HTML at Manx Note Book)

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