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• The Call of Zion: The Story of the First Welsh Mormon Immigration (1987), by Ronald D. Dennis (HTML at BYU)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Short History of Wales, by Owen M. Edwards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Normans in South Wales, 1070-1171, by Lynn H. Nelson (HTML in Italy)

• The Four Ancient Books of Wales, Containing the Cymric Poems attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century, ed. by W. F. Skene (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Lord of Dynevor: A Tale of the Times of Edward the First, by Evelyn Everett-Green (Gutenberg text)

• Archaeologia Cambrensis (partial serial archives)
• The Cambro-Briton (full serial archives)
• Bye-Gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties, ed. by John Askew Roberts (partial serial archives)

• Flintshire Historical Society Publications (partial serial archives)

• Archaeologia Cambrensis (partial serial archives)
• Bye-Gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties, ed. by John Askew Roberts (partial serial archives)

• Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language (2 volumes in 7 parts; 1898-1910), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, ed. by J. Gwenogvryn Evans (page images at HathiTrust)

• Calendars of the Ancient Charters, of the Welch and Scotish Rolls, Now Remaining in the Tower of London (London: B. White, 1774), by Joseph Ayloffe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Cardiff Records: Being Materials for a History of the County Borough from the Earliest Times (5 volumes; Cardiff: Corporation of Cardiff, 1898-1911), ed. by John Hobson Matthews
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volumes 1-5: illustrated HTML at British History Online
  • Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Diary of Walter Powell of Llantilio Crossenny in the County of Monmouth, Gentleman, 1603-1654 (Bristol, UK: J. Wright and Co., 1907), by Walter Powell, ed. by Joseph Alfred Bradney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The "Historia Brittonum," Commonly Attributed to Nennius, From a Manuscript Lately Discovered in the Library of the Vatican Palace at Rome, Edited in the Tenth Century by Mark the Hermit; With an English Version, Fac Simile of the Original, Notes and Illustrations (London: Printed for J. and A. Arch, 1819), by Nennius, ed. by Mark the Anchorite and William Gunn
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com
  • multiple formats at Google
• History of the Britons, by Nennius, trans. by J. A. Giles (Gutenberg text)

• Sweet Singers of Wales, by H. Elvet Lewis (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse, Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladyr (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857), by Elizabeth Davis, ed. by Jane Williams
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• The Normans in South Wales, 1070-1171, by Lynn H. Nelson (HTML in Italy)

• Traethawd ar Hanes Plwyf Merthyr, o'r Cyfnod Boreauf hyd yn Bresenol (in Welsh; Aberdare: J. T. Jones, 1864), by William Edmunds
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Welsh in Oneida County, New York, by Paul Demund Evans (illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com)

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • volume I: page images at MOA
  • volume II: page images at MOA
  • volume III: page images at MOA
  • volume IV: page images at MOA
• The Constitutional History of England, From 1760 to 1860 (1882), by Charles Duke Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Ravenshoe (new edition; London et al.: Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1894), by Henry Kingsley, illust. by Richard Caton Woodville (Gutenberg text)

• Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1869), by Juliana Horatia Ewing (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Letters and Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thos. Byam Martin, G.C.B. (3 volumes, published out of order; London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1898-1903), by Thomas Byam Martin, ed. by R. Vesey Hamilton
  • Volume I (Before 1808): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1808-1813): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (After 1813): multiple formats at archive.org

• A Diplomatic Whistleblower in the Victorian Era: The Life and Writings of E. C. Grenville-Murray (second edition; 2015), by Geoff Berridge (PDF at diplomacy.edu)

• Memories of Forty-Eight Years' Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1925), by Horace Smith-Dorrien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitchener in His Own Words (London: T. F. Unwin, c1917), by Lord Kitchener, ed. by James Bacon Rye and Horace George Groser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kitchener in His Own Words (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1917), by Lord Kitchener, ed. by James Bacon Rye and Horace George Groser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Naval History of Great Britain, From the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV (new edition with additions and notes bringing the work down to 1827; 6 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1886), by William James
  • Volume I (1488-1796): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1797-1800): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1800-1805): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (1805-1809): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (1809-1813): multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume VI (1813-1827): multiple formats at Google; US access only
• The Naval History of Great Britain, From the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV (new edition with additions and notes bringing the work down to 1827; 6 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), by William James
  • Volume I (1488-1796): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1797-1800): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1800-1805): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (1805-1809): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (1809-1913): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (1813-1827): multiple formats at archive.org
• La Campagne Maritime de 1805: Trafalgar (in French; Paris: Lib. Militaire de R. Chapelot et cie., 1907), by Edouard Desbrière
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Logs of the Great Sea Fights, 1794-1805 (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1899-1900), ed. by T. Sturges Jackson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1896), by Bartholomew James, ed. by John Knox Laughton and James Young F. Sulivan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Prisoners of War in France: Being the Adventures of John Tregerthen Short and Thomas Williams, of St. Ives, Cornwall (London: Duckworth and Co., 1914), by John Tregerthen Short and Thomas Williams, ed. by Edward Hain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Selections From the Correspondence of Admiral John Markham During the Years 1801-4 and 1806-7 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1904), by John Markham, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Types of Naval Officers, Drawn from the History of the British Navy, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2008), ed. by Marlene Tromp (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Eileen Cleere (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Antonia Jacqueline Losano (PDF at Ohio State)

• Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by John Paul M. Kanwit (PDF at Ohio State)

• Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray (1992), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Robyn R. Warhol (PDF at Ohio State)

• The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (second edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard D. Altick, contrib. by Jonathan Rose (PDF at Ohio State)

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