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Filed under: Great Britain -- History

The Growth of British Policy (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
Critical and Historical Essays, by Thomas Macaulay, ed. by Alexander James Grieve
- volume 1: Gutenberg text
- volume 2: Gutenberg text
The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of England, by Mary Platt Parmele (Gutenberg text)
Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: English, by Charles Morris (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James the Second, 1688 (Boston: Phillips Sampson and Co., 1856), by David Hume (page images at MOA)
The Leading Facts of English History (revised edition, c1912), by D. H. Montgomery (Gutenberg text)
Letters From Lady Jane Coke to Her Friend Mrs. Eyre at Derby, 1747-1758 (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1899), by Lady Jane Coke, ed. by Florence A. Monica Rathborne (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Short History of England (London: Chatto and Windus, 1917), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and page images)
Stories From English History, by Alfred John Church
The Story of the Empire (London: George Newnes, 1902), by Edward Salmon (PDF at djm.cc)
The History of England: A Study in Political Evolution, by A. F. Pollard (Gutenberg text)
A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates (London: Macmillan and Co., 1871), by Charlotte M. Yonge (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Warfare in England (London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, c1912), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Discourse of Foreign War; With an Account of All the Taxations Upon This Kingdom, From the Conquest to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; Also a List of the Confederates from Henry I to the End of the Reign of the Said Queen, Shewing Which Have Prov'd the Most Beneficial to England (London: Printed for H. Mortlock, 1690), by Robert Cotton (multiple formats at Google)
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: Great Britain -- History -- 13th century

The History of England, From the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward III (1216-1377) (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905), by T. F. Tout (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- 14th century

The History of England, From the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward III (1216-1377) (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905), by T. F. Tout (multiple formats at archive.org)
Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries, From the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henri IV (New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1857), by Jean Froissart, ed. by Thomas Johnes, contrib. by John Lord (page images at MOA)
Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (2 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1803), by William Godwin
- Volume I: page images at Google
- Volume II: page images at Google
Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1804), by William Godwin

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- 1603-1649

The Navy Under the Early Stuarts and its Influence on English History (Manchester, UK: The Faith press, 1913), by Christopher Denstone Penn
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- 1660-1714

Roger Whitley's Diary, 1684-1697: Bodleian Library, Ms Eng Hist C 711 (London: History of Parliament Trust, 2004), by Roger Whitley, ed. by Michael Stevens and Honor Lewington (HTML at British History Online)

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- 1689-1714

History of England, 1688-1815 (c1927), by E. M. Wrong (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, With the Suppressed Passages of the First Volume, and Notes (6 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1823), by Gilbert Burnet, contrib. by Martin Joseph Routh and Thomas Burnet
A Supplement to Burnet's History of My Own Time: Derived from His Original Memoirs, His Autobiography, His Letters to Admiral Herbert, and His Private Meditations, All Hitherto Unpublished (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1902), ed. by H. C. Foxcroft (multiple formats at Google; US access only)

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837

The Impeachment of the House of Brunswick (Boston: W. F. Gill and Co., 1875), by Charles Bradlaugh (Gutenberg text)
The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century; and Charity and Humour (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), by William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. by Edgar F. Harden, contrib. by James Hannay (page images at HathiTrust)
Records of Stirring Times, Based Upon Unpublished Documents From 1726-1822 (London: W. Heinemann, 1908), by Charlotte Anne Albinia Disbrowe, contrib. by M. Montgomery-Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
History of England, 1688-1815 (c1927), by E. M. Wrong (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- 1760-1789

An Ode on the Peace (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1783), by Helen Maria Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- 1789-1820

Stafford House Letters (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1891), by George Granville Leveson-Gower Sutherland, ed. by Ronald Sutherland Gower, contrib. by Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower Sutherland
The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists, and Plug-Drawers (third edition; Brighouse, UK: J. Hartley, 1895), by Frank Peel (page images at HathiTrust)
The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists and Plugdrawers (second edition; Heckmondwike, UK: Senior and Co., 1888), by Frank Peel
- multiple formats at Google; US access only
- multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- 18th century

The Savage Visit: New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1701-1795 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Kate Fullagar (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)
History of England, From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783 (3rd ed.; Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1853-4), by Philip Henry Stanhope (page images at MOA)
The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures (London: Macmillan and Co., 1914), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope, by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

The History of England During the Thirty Years' Peace, 1816-1846 (2 volumes; London: Charles Knight, 1849-1850), by Harriet Martineau
- Volume I (1816-1830): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (1830-1846): multiple formats at archive.org
The History of England From the Commencement of the XIXth Century to the Crimean War (4 volumes; Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1864), by Harriet Martineau
History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854, With an Introduction, 1800 to 1815 (4 volumes; 1865-1866), by Harriet Martineau
The Constitutional History of England, From 1760 to 1860 (1882), by Charles Duke Yonge (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- 20th century

The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53 (London: Royal Historical Society, Institute for Historical Research, University of London Press, 2019), by Edward Owens (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- Alfred, 871-899

The Story of King Alfred (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901), by Walter Besant (PDF at djm.cc)
The Life of King Alfred, by John Asser, trans. by J. A. Giles (HTML at mcllibrary.org)

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- Anecdotes

Cameos From English History, From Rollo to Edward II, by Charlotte M. Yonge
- page images at MOA
- Gutenberg text
The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection With the Calendar (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1869), by Robert Chambers (HTML at thebookofdays.com)
Chambers's Book of Days (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co, 1879), by Robert Chambers (page images at Wisconsin)

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- Angevin period, 1154-1216

The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of Other Countries of Europe from A.D. 732 to A.D. 1201 (2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), by Roger of Hoveden, ed. by Henry T. Riley
- Volume I (732-1180): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (1181-1201): multiple formats at archive.org
The History of England, From the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216), by George Burton Adams (Gutenberg text)
Chronicle of The Abbey of St. Edmund's, by Jocelin de Brakelond, trans. by Lionel Cecil Jane, contrib. by Francis Aidan Gasquet (HTML with commentary at csudh.edu)

Filed under: Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066

The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest (1876 edition), by John Mitchell Kemble, ed. by Walter de Gray Birch
- Volume I: PDF at McMaster
- Volume II: PDF at McMaster
Anglo-Saxon Britain, by Grant Allen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Early Wars of Wessex: Being Studies From England's School of Arms in the West (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913), by Albany F. Major, ed. by Charles W. Whistler (multiple formats at archive.org)

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