Literature and history -- Great Britain
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An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)
- An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)
- Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Jason B. Jones (PDF at Ohio State)
- King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Judy Kronenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Literature and history- Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Hayden V. White (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Essays on History and Literature (in honor of Foster Rhea Dulles; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1966), ed. by Robert H. Bremner, contrib. by Daniel Aaron, Edward Lurie, Stow Persons, Russel B. Nye, Margaret E. Kahn, and George Schoyer (PDF at Ohio State)
- Whose History? Engaging History Students Through Historical Fiction (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013), by Grant Rodwell (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
- Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997), by Daniel W. Lehman (PDF at Ohio State)
- History as Literature, and Other Essays, by Theodore Roosevelt (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)
- Homer and History (London: Macmillan, 1915), by Walter Leaf (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fiction as History: Nero to Julian (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994), by G. W. Bowersock (HTML at UC Press)
- Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2004), by Margaret Reid (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
- History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper, by Allan M. Axelrad (HTML at James Fenimore Cooper Society)
- Our British Ally (1944), by Herbert Heaton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Short Guide to Great Britain (ca. 1942), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division
- Britain's Place in the Great Plan: Four Lectures delivered in London, June and July 1921, by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)
- Altering the Earth: The Origins of Monuments in Britain and Continental Europe (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1993), by Richard Bradley (PDF files at ADS)
- The Clyde Mystery: A Study in Forgeries and Folklore (Glasgow: J. MacLehose and Sons, 1905), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Primitive Folk-Moots: or, Open-Air Assemblies in Britain (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1880), by George Laurence Gomme (PDF at McMaster)
- Scientific Papers and Addresses (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1884), by George Rolleston, ed. by Wm. Turner, contrib. by Edward B. Tylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered (1906), by Norman Lockyer (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps and Sites, by Alfred Watkins (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Roman Roads in Britain (reprint of the third edition; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Thomas Codrington (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Wanderings of an Antiquary: Chiefly Upon the Traces of the Romans in Britain (London: J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1854), by Thomas Wright (page images in Germany)
- Hadrian's Wall (London: John Lane, 1922), by Jessie Mothersole
- Historical Researches on the Wars and Sports of the Mongols and Romans; in Which Elephants and Wild Beasts Were Employed or Slain, and the Remarkable Local Agreement of History With the Remains of Such Animals Found in Europe and Siberia (London: Printed for the author and sold by Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826), by John Ranking
- The English Catalogue of Books (partial serial archives)
- A Checklist of American Copies of "Short-Title Catalogue" Books (second edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950), ed. by William Warner Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionary of National Biography (first and second editions, with supplementary volumes; 1885-1912), ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (multiple formats at Google and archive.org)
- Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1903), ed. by Sidney Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland and Ireland; With Lists of Their Works (enlarged and continued; 5 volumes; London: Printed for J. Scott, 1806), by Horace Walpole and Thomas Park
- A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, With Lists of Their Works (new edition; Edinburgh: Printed for W.H. Lunn, et al., 1796), by Horace Walpole (multiple formats at Google)
- Fifty Years' Recollections, Literary and Personal (based on the 1858 edition, with annotated names; 2010), by Cyrus Redding, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- Reminiscences of a Literary Life (based on the 1917 J. Murray edition, with annotated names; 2012), by Charles MacFarlane, ed. by John Tattersall and David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- Dictionary of National Biography (first and second editions, with supplementary volumes; 1885-1912), ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (multiple formats at Google and archive.org)
- Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1903), ed. by Sidney Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey
- Great Englishmen: An Historical Reading Book for Schools (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1911), by M. B. Synge (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Men Who Have Made the Empire (third edition; London: C. A. Pearson, 1899), by George Chetwynd Griffith, illust. by Stanley L. Wood
- Personalia: Intimate Recollections of Famous Men, Political, Literary, Artistic, Social, Various (published under "Sigma" pseudonym; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Julian Osgood Field
- Portraits, Memoirs and Characters, of Remarkable Persons From the Reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution, Collected From the Most Authentic Accounts Extant (new edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for R. S. Kirby, 1813), by James Caulfield (page images at HathiTrust)
- Studies in Contemporary Biography (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), by James Bryce (Gutenberg text)
- Uncensored Celebrities (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919), by E. T. Raymond (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Circle of Friends: the Tennysons and the Lushingtons (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by John O. Waller (PDF at Ohio State)
- Celebrated Cambridge Men, A.D. 1390-1908 (Cambridge, UK: A. P. Dixon; London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1910), by C. G. Griffinhoofe
- Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; To Which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq.; and Lives of Eminent Men (2 volumes in 3; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813), ed. by John Walker, contrib. by John Aubrey and Thomas Hearne
- Stories of Old Families (Edinburgh and London: W. and R. Chambers, 1878), by William Chambers
- The Nabobs in England: A Study of the Returned Anglo-Indian, 1760-1785 (Columbia University PhD dissertation; 1926), by James M. Holzman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fly Leaves: or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous, Consisting of Notes on Antiquarian and Historical Subjects, Collections Towards Neglected Biography, Memorials of Old London, Choice Specimens of Ancient Poetry, Chiefly From Unpublished Mss., Scraps and Sketches, Curious and Interesting, With Numerous Bibliographical Notices, etc., etc. (London: J. Miller, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoirs of Eminent Etonians; With Notices of the Early History of Eton College (London: R. Bentley, 1850), by Edward Shepherd Creasy (multiple formats at Google)
- Alumni Etonenses: or, A Catalogue of the Provosts and Fellows of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, From the Foundation in 1443, to the Year 1797, With an Account of Their Lives and Preferments (Birmingham: Printed by T. Pearson, 1797), by Thomas Harwood (page images at HathiTrust)
- "Brief Lives", Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between the Years 1669 and 1696 (2 volumes; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1898), by John Aubrey, ed. by Andrew Clark
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