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• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes Towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Egil Bakka, Theresa Jill Buckland, Helena Saarikoski, and Anne von Bibra Wharton (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes Towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Egil Bakka, Theresa Jill Buckland, Helena Saarikoski, and Anne von Bibra Wharton (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes Towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Egil Bakka, Theresa Jill Buckland, Helena Saarikoski, and Anne von Bibra Wharton (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• "A Tender Age": Cultural Anxieties Over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (c2008), by William F. MacLehose (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• "A Tender Age": Cultural Anxieties Over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (c2008), by William F. MacLehose (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Rebirth, Reform, And Resilience: Universities In Transition, 1300-1700 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by James M. Kittelson and Pamela J. Transue (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Forward Movement of the Fourteenth Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1961), ed. by Francis Lee Utley (PDF at Ohio State)

• Histoire Critique des Doctrines de l'Éducation en France Depuis le Seizième Siècle (2 volumes, in French; Paris: Hachette et cie, 1879), by Gabriel Compayré (page images at HathiTrust)

• Froebel and Education by Self-Activity (London: William Heinemann, 1893), by H. Courthope Bowen (PDF files at Roehampton)

• A Short History of Education (second edition; London: Ralph Holland and Co., 1904), by George Benson Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)

• My Schools and Schoolmasters: or, The Story of My Education (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, 1889), by Hugh Miller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Schools and Schoolmasters: or, The Story of My Education (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, 1907), by Hugh Miller, ed. by W. M. Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Education and Employment of Women, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)

• William Shakspere's Small Latine and Lesse Greeke (2 volumes; Urbana: University of Illinois press, 1944), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)

• William Shakspere's Petty School (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1943), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• William Shakspere's Small Latine and Lesse Greeke (2 volumes; Urbana: University of Illinois press, 1944), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645) (2 volumes; London: Burns and Oates, 1882-1885), by Mary Catharine Elizabeth Chambers, ed. by Henry James Coleridge
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts and Tongues; With An Answer to the Objections Against This Way of Education (London: Printed by J. D. to be sold by T. Parkhurst, 1673), by Bathsua Makin (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts and Tongues; With An Answer to the Objections Against This Way of Education (London: Printed by J. D. to be sold by T. Parkhurst, 1673), by Bathsua Makin (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Improvements in Education, As It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community (London: Darton and Harvey, 1803), by Joseph Lancaster (multiple formats at Google)

• Documentos Para la Historia Escolar de España (2 volumes in Spanish; Madrid: Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas, Centro de Estudios Históricos, 1916-1917), ed. by Lorenzo Luzuriaga (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Students and Society in Early Modern Spain, by Richard L. Kagan (PDF files at Libro)

• The Education of Women During The Renaissance (dissertation; Washington: National Capital Press, 1916), by Mary Agnes Cannon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (enlarged edition, 1903), by Joseph Strutt and J. Charles Cox (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (new edition; London: Printed for W. Reeves, 1830), by Joseph Strutt and William Hone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) (New York: The Century Co., 1899), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2017), ed. by David Bates, Edoardo D'Angelo, and Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
• After the Flood: The Early Post-Flood History of Europe (Chichester: New Wine Press, c1995), by Bill Cooper (illustrated HTML at creationism.org)
• A General History of Europe, From the Origins of Civilization to the Present Time (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1921), by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, and Emma Peters Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Introduction to the History of Western Europe (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1903), by James Harvey Robinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Outlines of European History (2 volumes; Boston et al.: Ginn and Company, c1914-1918), by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, and Charles A. Beard
  • Part I (Earliest Man, The Orient, Greece, and Rome; Europe to the Opening of 18th Century): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II (From the Seventeenth Century to the War of 1914; revised with supplementary chapter on the Great War, 1914-1918): multiple formats at archive.org
• A Short Sketch of European History: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Reformation (labeled "Part I", but no later parts known to exist; ca. 1920), by H. E. Marshall (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Story of Old Europe and Young America (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, c1922), by William H. Mace and Edwin P. Tanner, illust. by Homer Wayland Colby, B. F. Williamson, and Frank T. Merrill (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
• Early European History, by Hutton Webster (Gutenberg text)
• Europe and the Faith, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
• Europe, Its Past and Present Condition: Being a Comprehensive Manual of European Geography and History (Home Cyclopedia v8; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), by F. H. Ungewitter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• General History of Western Nations From 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D., I: Antiquity (the only 2 volumes published; London, Macmillan and Co., 1908), by Emil Reich
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Histoire Primitive du Genre Humain (in French; Tournai: H. Casterman; et al., 1864), by A. Fr. Gfrörer, trans. by Charles Sainte-Foi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ideales Viejos e Ideales Nuevos; Significación Histórica del Movimiento Maximalista (in Spanish; ca. 1918), by José Ingenieros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A People's History of Modern Europe (London: Pluto Press, c2016), by William A. Pelz
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Expansion of Europe: The Culmination of Modern History (second edition, 1917), by Ramsay Muir (Gutenberg text)

• Annals of the Emperor Charles V (Spanish text and English translation and notes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1912), by Francisco López de Gómara, ed. by Roger Bigelow Merriman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (12 volumes; London: Printed for Cadell and Davies et al., 1817), by William Robertson, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (multiple formats at Google)
• The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (8 volumes; Oxford: Printed for W. Pickering, and Talboys and Wheeler, 1825), by William Robertson
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8: multiple formats at archive.org

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