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

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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)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• Politics of Security: British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War, 1945-1970 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2013), by Holger Nehring (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• 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)

• Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Ashley Dawson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Difficult Folk? A Political History of Social Anthropology (Methodology and History in Anthropology v19; New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, c2010), by David Mills (PDF and Epub with commentary at Berghahn Books)

• 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)

• History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Victorian Afterimages (Palgrave Macmillan, c2010), by Kate Mitchell
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Ashley Dawson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• 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)

• Politics of Security: British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War, 1945-1970 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2013), by Holger Nehring (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• 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)

• Politics of Security: British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War, 1945-1970 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2013), by Holger Nehring (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• 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)

• Puck of Pook's Hill (London: Macmillan and Co., 1911), by Rudyard Kipling, illust. by H. R. Millar (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Puck of Pook's Hill (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1906), by Rudyard Kipling, illust. by Arthur Rackham (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Romance of History: England (3 volumes; London: Bull and Churton, 1833), by Henry Neele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fair Lady of Halifax: or, Colmey's Six Hundred (Raleigh, NC: Edwards and Broughton Co., 1920), by Ronleigh de Conval (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)
• The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg text)

• Silver Cross (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1922), by Mary Johnston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, A Highland Officer, Now in Prison at Avignon (London: Printed for R. King and W. Boreham, 1719), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• The Danvers Papers: An Invention (London: Macmillan and Co., 1867), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)

• Cheap Jack Zita (fourth edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1896), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Heritage Perilous (c1946), by Jeffery Farnol (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Carbonels, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• The Castle Inn (1898), by Stanley John Weyman, illust. by Walter Appleton Clark
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  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman Returned from a Thirteen Years Slavery in America, Where He Had Been Sent by the Wicked Contrivances of His Cruel Uncle (London: J. Freeman, 1743), by Eliza Fowler Haywood (multiple formats at Google)

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