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• Escaping from Germany (A. Melrose ltd., 1919), by Edward Page (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A prisoner of war in Russia : my experiences amongst the refugees, with the Red Crescent (S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878), by William Jesser Coope (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The English prisoners in Russia : a personal narrative of the First Lieutenant of H.M.S. Tiger, together with an account of his journey in Russia, and his interview with the Emperor Nicholas and the principal persons in the empire (Chapman and Hall, 1854), by Alfred Royer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baston's case vindicated, or, A brief account of some evil practices of the present commisioners for sick and wounded, &c. as they were proved before the Admiralty ... (London : [s.n.], 1695), by Samuel Baston (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamation directing how prisoners shall be ordered which are taken at sea, by men of warre (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M.DC.XXVIII [1628]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true relation of the cruelties and barbarities of the French upon the English prisoners of war being a journal of their travels from Dinan in Britany, to Thoulon in Provence, and back again ... / faithfully and impartially performed by Richard Strutton, being an eye-witness, and a fellow sufferer. (London : Printed for Richard Baldwin ..., 1690), by Richard Strutton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Extraordinary newes from Colonell Iohn Barkeer [sic] governour of Coventry, to a merchant of London Shewing how Sir VVilliam Brereton hath raised the siege from Namptwich in Cheshire. (London : Printed by E.G. for John Rothwell, 1643. [i.e. 1644]), by John Barker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A catalogue of all the names of the prisoners taken at the raising of the siege at Nampwitch, by that valiant commander, Sir Thomas Fairfaxe, and the Lancashire and Cheshire forces; under his command being a true copy of the list presented to his Excellency, and by his Excellency presented to both Houses of Parliament, the first of February. 1643. Together with a notable defeat given by Collonell Massy, to the enemy at Shepstow the 24. of Ianuary, 1643. Both appointed to be printed and published. ([London] : Printed for Edward Husbands, Febr. 1. 1643. [i.e. 1644]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A list of the prisoners of vvar, vvho are officers in commission, in custody of the Marshal-General. Tuesday the ninth of September, 1651. Ordered by the Parliament, that this list be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. (London : Printed by John Field, printer to the Parliament of England, 1651), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Recollections of the Jersey prison ship, from the manuscript of Capt. Thomas Dring. (Corinth Books, 1961), by Thomas Dring and Albert G. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War, by Ben J. Viljoen, illust. by P. Van Breda (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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
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• 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)
• Pilgrimages to English shrines. (D. Appleton & company, 1854), by Mrs. S. C. Hall and F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent. With the dissolved monasteries therein contained; their founders, and what eminent persons have been therein interred. As also, the death and burial of certain of the blood-royal, nobility and gentry of these kingdoms, emtombed in foreign nations ... (Printed by W. Tooke, for the editor, 1767), by John Weever and William Tooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gallery of notable men and women. (Nimmo, 1889), by Robert Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of England and Germany, 1936 (K. B. O'Ferrall?, 1937), by Kirk Bassett O'Ferrall and Mich.) St. Paul's Cathedral (Detroit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., of Halston, Shopshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth and major of the North Shopshire yeomanry cavalry; with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1900), by Nimrod, Thomas J. Rawlins, Joseph Grego, and Henry Thomas Alken (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution : consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads ; intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits ... (London : Printed for J. Rivington and Sons [etc.], 1779., 1779), by James Granger and Joseph Addison Alexander Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An oration on the character and services of the late Duke of Wellington : delivered before the British residents of Boston and vicinity, and their American friends, at the Melodeon, Nov. 10, 1852 (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853), by G. P. R. James and Mass.) Melodeon (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old convict days (T. F. Unwin, 1899), by William Derricourt and Louis Becke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My life as soldier and sportsman (G. Richards, 1921), by J. Robson Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memories of old Friends : being extracts from the journals and letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, from 1835 to 1871 (J.B. Lippincott, 1882), by Caroline Fox and Horace N. Pym (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., of Halston, Shopshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth and major of the North Shropshire yeomanry cavalry : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits (D. Appleton, 1903), by Nimrod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of the life and correspondence of John, Lord Teignmouth (Hatchard, 1843), by Charles John Shore Teignmouth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters containing an account of the late revolution in France, and observations on the constitution, laws, manners, and institutitons of the English (Printed for J. Johnson, 1792), by Henry Frederic Groenvelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the warriors of the civil wars of France and England Warriors of the seventeenth century. (J. Murray, 1867), by Edward Cust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Englishmen of the nineteenth century: Wellington, Canning, Stephenson, Russell. Cobden, Peel, Shaftesbury, Palmersto, Gladstone, Disraeli, by James Richard Joy. (The Chautanqua Press, 1902), by James Richard Joy and Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A family biography, 1662 to 1908 : drawn chiefly from old letters (J. Nisbet, 1908), by Isabella Scott and Catherine Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Imaginative biography (Saunders and Otley, 1834), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences for my children. Private.. (Printed for the author by Charles Thurnam., 1836), by Catherine Mary Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kenneth Gorden Garnett, M.C., R.F.A. : 30th July 1892-22 August 1917. (Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1917), by R. S. Garnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Profils anglais (J. Dent ;, 1911), by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homes and haunts of the wise and good (W. P. Hazard, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823), by Samuel Johnson, R. B. Adam, Joshua Reynolds, William Thomas Fry, Arthur Murphy, Alexander Chalmers, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Record of a girlhood (R. Bentley and son, 1879), by Fanny Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in biography and criticism. (Gould and Lincoln, 1857), by Peter Bayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The statesmen of the commonwealth of England : with a treatise on the popular progress in English history (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853), by John Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the abbots of Wearmouth (F. Graham, 1973), by the Venerable Bede and Peter Wilcock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wordsworth and the Coleridges : with other memories, literary and political (Folcroft Library Editions, 1978), by Ellis Yarnall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Men who have risen : a book for boys. (James Miller, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second funeral of Napoleon. (Estes and Lauriat, 1882), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morgan Brierley, a memoir : with a selection from his writings (J. Clegg, 1900), by Morgan Brierley and Helen Brierley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir James A. Picton : a biography (Isbister & Co. ;, 1891), by J. Allanson Picton (page images at HathiTrust)
• England's worthies under whom, all the civill and bloudy warres since anno 1642, to anno 1647, are related. : Wherein are described the severall battails, encounters, and assaults of cities, townes, and castles at severall times and places; so that the reader may behold the time, years, and event of every battle, skirmish and assault. Wherein London-apprentices had not the least share, as also , severall victories by sea, by the noble Admirall, Robert Earle of Warwick. (Rothwell, 1845), by John Vicars (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Maria Vernon Graham Havergal : with journals and letters (J. Nisbet, 1888), by Maria V. G. Havergal and J. Miriam Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pilgrimages to English shrines. (A. Hall, Virtue, & co., 1850), by Mrs. S. C. Hall, Roger Du Broff, and F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaders upward and onward. Brief biographies of noble workers. (Isbister and Company, Limited, 1887), by Henry C. Ewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Paul Cuffee, a man of colour. (Printed by C. Crookes, 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution : consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads ; intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits ... (London : Printed for T. Davies, J. Robson [etc.], 1775., 1775), by James Granger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nonconformist's Memorial : being an account of the lives, sufferings, and printed works of the two thousand ministers ejected from the Church of England, chiefly by the Act of Uniformity, Aug. 24, 1666 (Printed for J. Harris, 1775), by Edmund Calamy and Samuel Miller Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)

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