British History, Historical Novels, and Historical Plays

This CD contains the full text of 218 books -- British history, historical novels, and historical plays. It covers from Roman times up through the end of World War I, and also includes Shakespeare's historical plays, historical novels by G.A. Henty, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Whistler, and others, and even versions of the King Arthur legends.

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Table of Contents of British History, Historical Novels, and Historical Plays

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• English History
• Roman Times
• Medieval
• 16th Century
• 17th Century
• 18th Century
• 19th Century
• 20th Century through WWI
• General
• Scottish History
• Welsh History

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English History

Roman Times

• Early Britain, Roman Britain by Edward Conybeare, 1903
• Early Britain by Grant Allen
• Excavation of Roman Baths at Bath by Charles Davis
• History Of The Britons (Historia Brittonum) c. 800 AD, by Nennius, Translated by J. A. Giles
• The Romanization of Roman Britain by F. Haverfield
• William Shakespeare's historical plays
• Cymbelline
• G.A. Henty, historical novels
• Beric the Briton by G.A. Henty

Medieval

• Legend
• The Age of Chivalry: King Arthur and His Knights by Thomas Bullfinch
• Four Arthurian Romances ("Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot") by Chretien DeTroyes
• Arthurian Romances unrepresented in Malory's "Morte d'Arthur", no. 4, Morien Arthurian Romances
• Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890) translated by James Ingram
• Arthurian Chronicle: Roman de Brut by Wace translated by Eugene Mason
• Cameos from English History from Rollo to Edward II by Charlotte Yonge, 1873
• Historic Doubts of the Life and Reign of King Richard III by Horace Walpole, 1768
• The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Adams
• History of England from the Accession of Henry III to the Death of Edward III, 1216-1377 by T.F. Tout
• The History of King Richard the Thirde (unfinished) by Thomas More
• King Alfred of England by Jacob Abbott
• Magna Carta (text of the document)
• William the Conqueror by E.A. Freeman
• William Shakespeare's historical plays
• King Lear
• King John
• Henry IV, Part 1
• Henry IV, Part 2
• Henry V
• Henry VI, Part 1
• Henry VI, Part 2
• Henry VI, Part 3
• Richard II
• Richard III
• Charles Whister, historical novels
• Havelock the Dane: a Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
• King Alfred's Vikings: a Story of the First English Fleet
• A King's Comrade: a Story of Old Hereford
• A Prince of Cornwall
• Wulfric the Weapon Thane
• G.A. Hentry, historical novels
• At Agincourt
• The Dragon and the Raven: or the Days of King Alfred
• A March on London
• The Boy Knight: a Tale of the Crusades
• The Knight of the White Cross
• Saint George for England
• Winning His Spurs
• Wulf the Saxon
• Sir Walter Scott, historical novels
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
• Charlotte Yonge, historical novels
• The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte Yonge
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, historical novels
• The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Robert Louis Stevenson, historical novels
• The Black Arrow: a Tale of the Two Roses

16th Century

• Elizabethan Sea Dogs [Drake] by William Wood
• England Under the Tudors by Arthur Innes
• English Seamen in the 16th Century by James anthony Froude, 1896
• Froude's History of England by James Anthony Froude, Henry VIII volume 1
• Proclamation of Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England
• Queen Elizabeth's Speech to Her Last Parliament
• William Shakespeare's historical plays
• Henry VIII
• The Merry Wives of Windsor

17th Century

• His Majesties Declaration Defended by John Dryden, 1681
• History of James II by Charles James Fox
• Journal of the Swedish Embassy [to Britain] [1653-1654]
• Life of the Edward Earl of Clarendon [17th century] volume 2 by Henry Craik
• Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe
• The Military Memoirs of Captain George Carleton from the Dutch War 1672 to the Conclusion of the Peace of Utrecht 1713
• The Touchstone of Fortune: Memoir of Baron Clyde [from the reign of Charles II] by Charles Major
• The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead (1670)
• William Lilly's History of His Life and Times 1602 to 1681
• Wits and Beaux of Society by Grace and Philip Wharton, 1890, volume 1 of 2

18th Century

• Beaux and Belles of England by Mrs. Mary Robinson
• Edmund Burke
• Burke by John Morley
• Burke's Writings and Speeches volume 1
• Speech on Conciliation with America by Edmund Burke
• Selections, Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
• Thoughts on the Current Discontents and Speeches
• Works of Edmund Burke
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 6
• volume 7
• volume 8
• volume 9
• volume 10
• volume 11
• volume 12
• Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay
• volume 1, 1778-1787
• volume 2, 1787-1792
• The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty by Sir John Barrow, 1831
• The Military Memoirs of Captain George Carleton from the Dutch War 1672 to the Conclusion of the Peace of Utrecht 1713
• Travels in England in 1782 by Charles Moritz
• A Voyage to the South Sea by William Bligh, 1792

19th Century

• Charles Philip Yorke, Vice-Admiral by Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
• Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
• Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin, 1783
• The History of the Fabian Society by Edward Pease
• Lieutenant and Commander by Captain Basil Hall, 1862
• The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth by Edward Osler, 1854
• Memoirs of Henry Hunt
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• A Publisher and His Friends, memoir and correspondence of John Murray by Samuel Smiles
• Reise durch England und Schottland by Johanna Schopenhauer, 1803, in German without accents
• Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by Captain Rees Howell Gronow, Formerly of the Grenadier Guards, and
• M.P. for Stafford: being Anecdotes of the camp, the court, and the clubs, at the close of the last war with France. Related by himself.
• Sir John French by Cecil Chisholm
• Speeches and Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1, by John Bright
• Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by James Richard Joy
• Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies by T. Clarkson, 1823
• Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake by John MacGillivray, 1852
• volume 1
• volume 2

• William Gladstone
• William Ewart Gladstone by James Bryce
• The Grand Old Man -- Gladstone by Richard B. Cook
• Queeen Victoria
• Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen [Victoria], Volume 2, by Sarah Tyler
• Queen Victoria by E. Gordon Browne
• Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
• Queen Victoria, Her Girlhood and Womanhood by Grace Greenwood
• Queen Victoria: Story of Her Life and Reign by anonymous
• Great Britain and Her Queen by Anne E. Keeling, 1897 [Queen Victoria]
• Lord Horatio Nelson
• Life of Horatio Lord Nelson by Robert Southey
• The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson by Mr. Harrison
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Life of Nelson by Captain A.T. Mahan
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Frontiers of the British Empire
• The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 by Archibald Forbes
• Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute by Theodore Rodenbough
• Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans, 1814-1815 by Rev. G.R. Gleig
• Indian Frontier Policy by General Sir John Adye
• Narrative of the Siege of Delhi, 1857, by Charles John Griffiths
• Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy Between 1793 and 1849 by William Gilly, 1850
• The Romance of a Pro-Consul by Sir George Grey

G.A. Henty, historical fiction
• Among Malay Pirates by G.A. Henty
• Forest and Frontiers by G.A. Henty
• In Times of Peril, a Tale of India by G.A. Henty

20th Century up through World War I

• The Amateur Army [WW I] by Partrick MacGill, 1915
• Britain at Bay by Spenser Wilkinson, 1909
• England and the War, being sundry addresses delivered during the War [WWI] by Walter Raleigh, 1918
• The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Leaves from a Field Note-Book by J. H. Morgan, 1916
• Letters to The Times upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) by Sir Thomas Holland
• On the King's Service: Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms by Rev. Innes Logan, 1917 [WW I]
• Rebuilding Britain by Sir Alfred Hopkinson, 1918
• Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Captain Dolbey, 1918
• The Story of the Great War, volume 3 of 12
• The Story of the Sixth Battalioin, the Denham Lightinfantry, France April 1915-Nov. 1918 by Captain R.B. Ainsworth, 1919
• The Story of the Ninth King's in France by Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts, 1922

General

• Raphael Holinshed (d. 1580)
• The Historie of England, from the time that it was first inhabited until the time that it was last conquered
• book one
• book two
• book three
• book four
• book five
• book six
• book seven
• book eight
• Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, volume 2 = England, beginning at Duke William of Normandy (the Conqueror)
• part 1 of 12
• part 2 of 12
• part 3 of 12
• part 4 of 12
• part 5 of 12
• part 6A of 12
• Child's History of England by Charles Dickens
• The Constitutional History of England 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge
• The Corporation of London: Its Rights and Privileges by William Allen
• The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
• English Literature Considered as an Interpreter of English History by Henry Coppee
• English Villages by P.H. Ditchfield, 1901
• Essays on History and Literature by james Anthony Froude, 1906
• The Evoluton of an Empire: a Brief Historical Sketch of England by Mary Parmele
• History of Birmingham by W. Hutton
• The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babbington, Lord Macaulay
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• History of King Charles II of England by Jacob Abbott
• History of the English People by John Greer
• volume 1, 449-1071
• volume 2, 1071-1204
• The History of England by A.F. Pollard
• The History of England, volume 1, by David Hume
• The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George V by John Lingard and Hilaire Belloc, volume 8
• History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of Abolition of the Slave-Trade by the British Parliament by Thomas Clarkson 1839
• Home-Life of the Lanchasire Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh
• Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry Shelley
• King's Cutters and Smugglers, 1700-1855 by E. Keble Chatterton
• Landholding in England by Joseph Fisher
• The Leading Facts of English History by D.H. Montgomery
• Prime Ministers and Some Others by George Russell, 1918
• Sea-Power and Other Studies by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge
• Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 edited by Edgar Jones, 1914
• The Slave Trade by H.C. Carey
• Types of Naval Officers, Drawn from the History of the British Navy by A. T. Mahan
• The Visiions of England: Lyrics of Leading Men and Events in English History by Francis Palgrave, 1889
• Young Folk's History of England by Charlotte Yonge

Scottish History

• Lauder of Fountainball's Journals 1665-1676 by Sir John Lauder
• The Life of Colonel James Gardiner who was slain at the Battle of Prectonpaus, Sept. 21, 1745 by P. Doddridge
• Lost Leaders by Andrew Lang
• The Memoirs of Major Alexander Rambins, a Highland Officer, 1719
• The Norwegian Account of Haco's Expedition Against Scotland, 1263
• An Outline of the Relations Between England and Scotland, 540-1707 by Robert Rait
• Reise durch England und Schottland by Johanna Schopenhauer, 1803, in German without accents
• Scotland's Mark on America by George Black
• A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang
• Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, volume 22
• Historical Novels
• The Thirsty Sword (Norse invasion of Scotland 1262-1263) by Robert Leighton
• In Freedom's Cause by G.A. Henty
• The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
• Bonnie Prince Charlie by G.A. Henty
• Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
• Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott

Welsh History

• Description of Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis
• An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition Concerning the Discovery of America by Prince Madog ab owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170 by John Williams 1791
• Itinerary of Baldwin in Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis
• Short History of Wales by Owen M. Edwards