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This 1906 volume records in charming photographs and vivid prose the author’s visits to the homes and haunts of famous English writers such as Sir Philip Sydney, Gilbert White, Robert Burns, and Thomas Carlyle, among others.

By turns interesting, witty, humorous, idealistic, realistic, discursive and even occasionally gossipy, this poignant and exhilarating collection of letters was edited by H Buxton Forman. It includes epistles to Fanny Brawne, the love of his life and provides incomparable insight into the short life of the great Romantic poet.

Harte’s protagonist, John Hale, is relieved of his cash by highway robbers while riding in a stagecoach. Hale decides to get together a group of men to catch the thieves, but as the story moves along, many of his co-conspirators seem to have their own, more malevolent, motives.

In 1869, Galton, a Victorian polymath, composed this first scientific study attempting to establish a link between lineage and accomplishment. In a work that remains controversial to this day, he reached the conclusion that intelligence and ability are inherited, and that intelligence itself is a major...

Queen Anne ascended the throne in 1702 and ruled for twelve years until her death in 1714—ending the line of the Stuarts. In this fascinating biography, Herbert W. Paul takes on the task of explaining Queen Anne’s complex personal and public affairs, as well as the events of her era, which provide a wealth of insight into royal life.

The first installment of a pioneering trilogy that would include The Town Labourer (1917) and The Skilled Labourer (1919), this 1911 volume established the Hammonds as revisionist historians whose meticulous research and persuasive prose not only illuminated the past but could influence contemporary social debates.  Here the authors focused on the effects of enclosure measures on the rural poor.

An excellent mix of history and biography for anyone interested in English history, this first volume of two examines the life and times of the English prime ministers from rise of Sir Robert Walpole in 1715 to the death of Charles James Fox in 1806. Includes views of Lords Grenville and North as well as the Earl of Chatham (William Pitt the Elder), among others.

This 1889 volume in the Twelve English Statesmen series focuses on Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), who laid the groundwork for the modern parliamentary system of government that distinguished Great Britain.  "No intelligent reader who picks up this volume on Walpole will lay it down unread," said an 1889 review in the New York Times.

George III (1738-1820) was on the throne when England lost its American colonies and when it defeated Napoleon. Jesse, an influential British historian, sketches here the monarch’s life and times, from childhood and marriage through political struggles and mental illness—a story enlivened by the...

In this 1917 volume, the second installment in a pioneering trilogy that includes The Village Labourer (1911) and The Skilled Labourer (1919), the authors shift from agricultural laborers to the urban working class. Here the Hammonds identify class exploitation as a pernicious effect of the Industrial Revolution and advocate governmental regulation as a fair solution.

George III (1738-1820) was on the throne when England lost its American colonies and when it defeated Napoleon. Jesse, an influential British historian, sketches here the monarch’s life and times, from childhood and marriage through political struggles and mental illness—a story enlivened by the...

This useful 1890 work recounts the history of England from the end of the Napoleonic War in 1815 to the peace of Paris in 1856, following the Crimean War. A balanced yet honest six-volume history, it is Walpole’s masterpiece. Volume Two picks up with the changes in the royal family around the time...

Police are still known in Britain as “bobbies” and in Ireland as “Peelers,” named after the man who established them: Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850). The extraordinary life and career of the Prime Minister who built the British Conservative Party is vividly captured by one of England’s most distinguished historians.

Kings, politicians, accomplishments, and failures are detailed in this engrossing seven-volume history of England between 1713 and 1783. What emerges is a colorful portrait of an era, dominated not by dates and facts but by people and momentous events. This fifth volume picks up in the year 1763, with...