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Filed under: England -- Antiquities

Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory From Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-Names, and Faerie Superstitions (London: Chapman and Hall, 1919), by Harold Bayley
- multiple formats at archive.org
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
English Villages (London: Methuen and Co., 1901), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain (6 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822), by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons
Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
The Old Road (London: Constable and Company, 1911), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
The Church Bells of Cambridgeshire: A Chronicle of The Principal Companalogical Events That Have Occurred Within the County; To Which Is Appended a List of the Inscriptions on the Bells (Lowestoft, UK: S. Tymms, 1869), by John James Raven
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: England -- Antiquities, Roman

Early Roman Occupation at Cirencester (Cirencester, England: Cirencester Excavation Committee, Corinium Museum, 1982), by J. S. Wacher and Alan McWhirr (PDF at Cotswold Archaeology)
The Stane Street: A Monograph, by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: England -- Biography

Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts From the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, From 1835 to 1871 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1882), by Caroline Fox, ed. by Horace N. Pym
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century, by James Richard Joy (Gutenberg text)
Chapters From Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter (London: Selwyn and Blount, c1921), by Juliet M. Soskice (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: England -- Church history

The History of the "Old Meeting House", St. Neots, 1691-1890; Together With a Short Survey of the Religious Life of England at the Beginning of This Century (St. Neots: Printed by P. C. Tomson, 1890), by Reginald Denness Cooper
- multiple formats at Google; US access only
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: England -- Civilization

Histoire de la Civilisation en Angleterre (5 volumes, in French; Paris: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et cie., 1865), by Henry Thomas Buckle, trans. by A. Baillot (page images at HathiTrust)
History of Civilization in England (2 volumes; from the second London edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1864), by Henry Thomas Buckle
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: England -- Description and travel

Among English Inns: The Story of a Pilgrimage to Characteristic Spots of Rural England, by Josephine Tozier (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
Ein Studienaufenthalt in England (with additional material, in German; Lübeck: Schmidt, 1902), by Adolf Reusch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
First Impressions of England and its People (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, 1889), by Hugh Miller (HTML in the UK)
Impressions of England: or, Sketches of English Scenery and Society (second edition; New York: Dana and Co., 1856), by A. Cleveland Coxe
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at Google
Letters From England, 1846-1849, by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain (6 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822), by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons
- Volume I (Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamsire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Cambridgeshire and Cheshire): multiple formats at Google
- Volume III (Cornwall): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Cumberland): multiple formats at Google
- Volume V (Derbyshire): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Devonshire): multiple formats at archive.org
The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway (London: Chapman and Hall, 1901), by Charles G. Harper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Our Hundred Days in Europe, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Passages from the English Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (HTML at ibiblio.org)
Rural Rides (London: A. Cobbett, 1853), by William Cobbett, ed. by James Paul Cobbett (multiple formats at archive.org)
Shakespeare's England (revised illustrated edition; New York and London: Macmillan, 1898), by William Winter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
A Tour in England and Scotland, in 1785 (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788), by William Thomson
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images in Germany
- page images at HathiTrust
Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829, With Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Characters, in a Series of Letters (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833), by Hermann Pückler-Muskau (multiple formats at archive.org)
Travels in England (based on the London Grant Richards edition of 1900), by Richard Le Gallienne, illust. by Herbert Railton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
Travels in England in 1782, by Karl Philipp Moritz (Gutenberg text)
Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium: Being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe With His North American Indian Collection (1852), by George Catlin
- volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Afoot in England, by W. H. Hudson (Gutenberg text)
Cathedral Days: A Tour in Southern England (Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1899), by Anna Bowman Dodd, illust. by E. Eldon Deane (multiple formats at archive.org)
Coaching Days and Coaching Ways (London and New York: Macmillan, 1893), by W. Outram Tristram, illust. by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
Field and Hedgerow, Being the Last Essays of William Jefferies, Collected By His Widow, by Richard Jefferies, ed. by Mrs. J. Baden (Gutenberg text)
The Heart of the Country: A Survey of a Modern Land (London: A. Rivers, 1906), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
Hills and the Sea, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
Old English Towns (combined edition of earlier 2 volumes; London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1909), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang (multiple formats at archive.org)
Old English Towns (New York: F. A. Stokes, ca. 1912), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Old Road (London: Constable and Company, 1911), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by William Henry Hyde
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
Our Little English Cousin (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, c1908), by Blanche McManus (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, by Washington Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (2 volume "Van Tassel" edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894-1895), by Washington Irving, illust. by Allan F. Barraud, Frederick S. Church, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Arthur Rackham, and Julian Rix (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England (new edition, revised; Columbus, OH: J. H. Riley and Co., 1859), by Frederick Law Olmsted
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
- page images at MOA
The Letters of Robert Mackay to His Wife, Written From Ports in America and England, 1795-1816 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1949), by Robert Mackay, ed. by Walter Charlton Hartridge (PDF at Georgia)
July and August of 1914 (Cleveland: Press of the Brooks Co., 1915), by Mary Raymond Williams
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Picturesque England: Its Landmarks and Historical Haunts, As Described in Lay and Legend, Song And Story (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1891), by L. Valentine (multiple formats at archive.org)
Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: England -- Drama

The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
- HTML at FireBlade
- HTML in Ireland
The Moonstone: A Dramatic Story, in Three Acts, by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)
No Name: A Drama in Five Acts, by William Bayle Bernard, contrib. by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)
No Name: A Drama, in Four Acts, by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)
The Woman in White: A Drama, by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)
You Never Can Tell, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

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