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

• Told by an Idiot (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Rose Macaulay
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763, Republished, With Preface and Notes (apparently a different work from Madden's similarly-conceived Memoirs of the Twentieth Century; London: Rivingtons, 1899), ed. by Charles Oman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Annals of an Active Life (2 volumes; New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1925), by Nevil Macready (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of Forty-Eight Years' Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1925), by Horace Smith-Dorrien (page images at HathiTrust)

• Managing Industrial Decline: The British Coal Industry Between the Wars (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Michael Dintenfass (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988), ed. by Barry Cooper, Allan Kornberg, and William Mishler, contrib. by Joel Smith, Neil Nevitte, Marilyn B. Hoskin, Roy E. Fitzgerald, Norman C. Thomas, William James Booth, F. L. Morton, A. Kenneth Pye, James E. Alt, Ivor Crewe, Donald Searing, Mark N. Franklin, Roger Gibbins, Harold D. Clarke, Henry W. Chappell, William R. Keech, Michael Allen Gillespie, Michael Lienesch, and Morris P. Fiorina (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lytton Strachey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943), by Max Beerbohm (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Afterlife of Empire (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Jordanna Bailkin (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900-18 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by R. J. Q. Adams and Philip P. Poirier (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Trouble and Strife Reader (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2009), ed. by Deborah Cameron and Joan Scanlon (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• Les Troupes de Couleur à la Guerre (in French; Paris: Dubois, 1918), by Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle (page images here at Penn)

• A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011), by Ann Oakley (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)

• Healthcare in Ireland and Britain From 1850: Voluntary, Regional and Comparative Perspectives (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2014), ed. by Donnacha Seán Lucey and Virginia Crossman (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• For Their Own Good: The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lucinda McCray Beier (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to the World, by Bernhard Schreiber, trans. by H. R. Martindale (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

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

• Dilemmas of Decline: British Intellectuals and World Politics, 1945-1975 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Ian Hall (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Damon Franke (PDF at Ohio State)

• Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Ian Bullock (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Ian Bullock (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Gina Masucci MacKenzie (PDF at Ohio State)

• Toward a Theater of the Oppressed: The Dramaturgy of John Arden (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Javed Malick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Uganda's Katikiro in England: Being the Offical Account of His Visit to the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1904), by Ham Mukasa, trans. by Ernest Millar, contrib. by Harry Johnston (multiple formats at archive.org)

• British Women Surgeons and Their Patients, 1860-1918 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Claire Brock (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• British Labor and the War: Reconstructors for a New World (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Paul Underwood Kellogg and Arthur Gleason (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• The Growth of British Policy (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cambria Triumphans: or, Brittain in its Perfect Lustre, Shewing the Origen and Antiquity of That Illustrious Nation (2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for A. Crooke, 1661), by Percy Enderbie
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • 1810 reprint: page images at Wellcome Collection
• 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 (v4 of a larger series; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1908), by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: English (Los Angeles: Angelus University, c1908), 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
  • Part I (From Julius Caesar to the Black Prince): illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Part II (From Richard II to Charles I): illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Part III (From the Lord Protector to Victoria): illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
• The Story of the Empire (London: George Newnes, 1902), by Edward Salmon (PDF at djm.cc)
• Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland; The Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire (London: Printed by W. L. for R. Clavell, 1673), ed. by Peter Leycester (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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

• 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)

• 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
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
  • Volume IV: page images at Google

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