Ancient Britain
R. J. C. Atkinson, Stonehenge
Stephen Oppenheimer, The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain and Ireland from Ice-Age Hunter Gatherers to the Vikings as revealed by DNA analysis [2006]
Francis Pryor, Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans [2003]
Brian Sykes, Blood of the Isles: Exploring the genetic roots of our tribal history [2006]
Christopher Snyder, Exploring the World of King Arthur
Roman Britain
Manda Scott, Boudica: Dreaming the Bull
Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle
I. A. Richmond, Roman Britain (Pelican)
Peter Salway, Roman Britain
Anglo-Saxon
Bede, History of the English Church and People
Michael Alexander (trans.), Beowulf
Leslie Alcock, Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology AD 367-634 [1971]
Peter Ackroyd, The History of England, Volume 1: Foundation
James Cable (trans.) The Death of King Arthur
Winston Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Vol. 1., The Birth of Britain
Harriet O' Brien, Queen Emma and the Vikings: The Woman who shaped the events of 1066
Michael Swanton (trans), Anglo-Saxon Prose
Dorothy Whitelock, The Beginnings of English Society:, The Anglo-Saxon period (Pelican)
Gwynn Jones (trans.), The Mabinogion
Medieval
Helen Storm Corsa, Chaucer: Poet of Mirth & Morality
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (trans)
The Canterbury Tales (Everyman)
David Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284
T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
Froissart, The Chronicles of Froissart, (trans John Bourchier, ed. G.C. Macauley) [1930]
John Harvey, The Plantagenets [1948]
Sarah Gristwood, Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
E.B. Fryde & Edward Miller, Historical Studies of the English Parliament, Vol.1, Origins to 1399
Historical Studies of the English Parliament, Vol.2, 1399 to 1603
Adrian Hastings, The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism
Geoffrey Hindley, A Brief History of the Magna Carta: The Story of the Origins of Liberty
May McKisack, The Fourteenth Century, 1307-1399 (Oxford History of England)
E. F. Jacob, The Fifteenth Century, 1399-1485 (Oxford History of England)
A.R. Myers, England in the Late Middle Ages
A. L. Poole, From Domesday Book to Magna Carta, 1087-1216
Maurice Powicke, The Thirteenth Century, 1216-1307 (Oxford History of England)
Jonathan Sumption, Trial by Battle: The Hundred Years War I
Alison Weir, Lancaster of York: The War of the Roses [1995]
Eleanor of Aquitaine, by the Wrath of God, Queen of England [1999]
Tudor England
J. D. Mackie, The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558
S.T. Bindof, Tudor England
Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More
Thomas More, Utopia [1515]
David Starkey, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
Alison Weir, Henry VIII: King and Court
Derek Wilson, In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII
Robert Hutchinson, The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracy, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant [2005]
Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Pilgrimage of Grace: The Rebellion that shook Henry VIII's throne
A.G. Dickens, The English Reformation [1964]
Richard Rex, Henry VIII and the English Reformation
Philip Hughes, The Reformation: A Popular History
G. J. Meyer, The Tudors, from Lady Jane Grey to Elizabeth I
Anna Whitelock, Mary Tudor: England's First Queen
Lacey Baldwin Smith, The Elizabethan World
Giles Milton, Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers gambled and won the New World
Neville Williams, Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Ann Somerset, Elizabeth I [1991]
Christopher Hibbert, The Virgin Queen: A Personal History of Elizabeth I [1990]
J. B. Black, The Reign of Elizabeth, 1558-1603
Elizabeth Jenkins, Elizabeth the Great
Margaret Irwin, That Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh
Charles Nicholl, The Creature in the Map: Sir Walter Raleigh's Quest for El Dorado [1995]
Jonathan Bate, Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare [2009]
Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage [2007]
James Shapiro, 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare [2005]
Christopher Marlowe, The Complete Plays
Tamburlaine (Parts one and two)
David Damrosch (ed.), The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Early Modern Period
Neil Hanson, The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True Story of the Spanish Armada [2003]
Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada [1959]
Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Scotland & Ireland
Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Great Britain (Pelican)
History of the Kings of Great Britain (Folio)
E.M.W. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture [1943]
The Stuarts
David Harris Willson, King James VI & I [1956]
Katie Whitaker, A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Francis Bacon, Essays (Intro. by Oliphant Smeaton)
Maurice Ashley, England in the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1714 (Pelican)
John Adamson, The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I
Robert Ashton, Counter-Revolution: The Second Civil War and its Origins, 1646-48
H.N. Brailsford, The Levellers and the English Revolution
Anna Beer, Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer & Patriot
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
Trevor Royle, Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660
J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
Diane Purkiss, The English Civil war: A People's History
Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Voyage to War [2006]
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Godfrey Davies, The Early Stuarts, 1603-1660
J.C. Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700
Samuel Pepys, The Concise Pepys (Wordsworth Classics)
George Clark, The Later Stuarts, 1660-1714
Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
Austin Woolrych, Commonwealth to Protectorate
Blair Worden, The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660
Antonia Fraser, Cromwell: Our Chief of Men
Antonia Fraser, King Charles II
Thomas Babington Macauley, History of England, from the Accession of James II, Vol I-V.
C.V. Wedgwood, The Thirty Years War
A King Condemned: The Trial and Execution of Charles I
The King's War, 1641-47
The King's Peace, 1637-41
Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford, 1593-1641
Montrose
Jenny Uglow, A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
R.H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
John R. Young (ed.), Celtic Dimensions of the British Civil Wars
Howard Tomlinson & David Gregg (eds.), Politics, Religion & Society in Revolutionary England, 1640-1660: Documents and Debates.
Stevie Davies, Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution, 1640-1660
S.R. Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth & Protectorate, Vol. 2, 1651-53
History of the Great Civil War, Vol. 2, 1644-45
History of the Great Civil War, Vol. 3, 1645-47
History of the Great Civil War, Vol. 4. 1647-49
Peter Gaunt, Oliver Cromwell
Pauline Gregg, Free-Born John: A Biography of John Lilburne
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution
The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714
Reformation to Industrial Revolution, 1530-1780
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell & the English Revolution
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
J.P. Kenyon, The Stuarts
Mark Kishlansky, A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714
Jane Ohlmeyer & John Kenyon, The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1638-1660
Jane Ohlmeyer, (ed.) The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Complete Works
Whig Supremacy
Basil Williams, The Whig Supremacy, 1714-1760
Douglas Hay & Nicholas Rogers (eds.), Eighteenth Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords
John Hussey, Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough: Hero of Blenheim
Edward Pearce Pitt the Elder: Man of War
J. H. Plumb, England in the Eighteenth Century
Reign of George III
J. Steven Watson, The Reign of George III, 1760-1815
Jennifer Mori, William Pitt and the French Revolution 1785-95
L.G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox
George Rudé, Wilkes and Liberty: A Social Study of 1763-1774
John Ehrmann, The Younger Pitt, Volume One: The Years of Acclaim
The Younger Pitt, Volume Two: The Reluctant Transition
The Younger Pitt, Volume Three: The Consuming Struggle
Winston Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Vol. 3., The Age of Revolution
Carola Oman, Nelson
John Aikin, Annals of the Reign of George III
John Bew, Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny
John Brooke, King George III
Arthur Bryant, The Years of Endurance, 1793-1802 [1942]
William Hague, William Pitt the Younger
Christopher Hibbert, Wellington: A Personal History
Mike Jay, The Unfortunate Colonel Despard
Douglas Kanter, The Making of British Unionism, 1740-1848
Jane Austen, Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Mansfield Park
Lynn Reid Banks, Dark Quartet: The Story of the Brontes
Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
William Blake, Complete Works
Charlotte Bronté Villette
Jane Eyre
James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
Boswell's London Journal 1762-63
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights [1847]
Ann Bronte, The Tenant of Windfell Hall
British Enlightenment
Michael White, Isaac Newton: The Last Sorceror
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Everyman Library)
Second Treatise of Government/ A Letter Concerning Toleration (Dover Thrift)
Justin Champion, Republican Learning: John Toland and the Crisis of Christian Culture, 1696-1722
Nicholas Phillipson, Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings (OUP)
Craig Nelson, Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution and the Birth of Modern Nations
Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (Penguin Classics)
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations Vols I & II
John Keane, Tom Paine: A Political Life
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature [1739]
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Short Residence in Sweden/Memoirs (Penguin Classics)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/Man (Oxford World Classics)
Slave Trade
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery
Elisabeth Kowaleski Wallace, The British Slave Trade and Public Memory [2006]
Michael Jordan, The Great Abolition Sham: The True Story of the End of the British Slave Trade
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery
Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative and other writings
Age of Reform
Llewellyn Woodward, The Age of Reform, 1815-1870
Ben Wilson, The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the fight for the free press
Michael J. Turner, The Age of Unease: Government and Reform in Britain, 1782-1832
Dorothy Thompson, Queen Victoria: A Woman on the Throne
The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution
The Chartist Experience: Studies in Working Class Radicalism and Culture
E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class
The Poverty of Theory & other essays
David Thomson, England in the Nineteenth Century 1815-1914
Jane Robins, Rebel Queen: How the Trial of Caroline Brought England to the Brink of Revolution
Donald Read, Fergus O' Connor: Irishman and Chartist
John Prest, Lord John Russell
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Paul Pickering, The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League
Fergus O' Connor: A Political Life
Edward Pearce, Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act
Mark O' Brien, Perish the Privileged Orders: A Socialist History of the Chartist Movement
A. L. Morton, The Life and Ideas of Robert Owen [1962]
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Harriet Martinieu, A History of the Thirty Years Peace, 1816-1846, Vol. 4 [1849-1850]
Elizabeth Longford, Wellington: Pillar of State
Brian Jenkins, Henry Goulburn, 1784-1856. A Political Biography
Richard Ingrams, The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire
Captain Swing (with George Rudé)
Simon Heffer, Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle
Alfred Plummer, Bronterre: A Political Biography of Bronterre O' Brien, 1804-1864
Una Pope-Hennessy, Charles Dickens
Geoffrey Best, Shaftesbury
Asa Briggs, Victorian People
Essays in Labour History
Terry Coleman, The Railway Navvies
William Cobbett, Cobbett in Ireland: A Warning to England (ed. Denis Knight)
Phillip Guedalla, Palmerston
Muriel Jaeger, Before Victoria
Douglas Hurd, Robert Peel: A Biography
Leslie Williams, Daniel O' Connell, The British Press and the Famine: Killing Remarks (2004)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
David Copperfield
Hard Times
The Old Curiosity Shop
Nicholas Nickleby
Martin Chuzzlewit
Victorian England
Geoffrey Best, Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75
A. N. Wilson, The Victorians
Robert Ensor, England, 1870-1914
Roy Hattersley, Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and their Salvation Army
Christopher Hibbert, The Destruction of Lord Raglan
Roy Jenkins, Gladstone
William Kuhn, The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli
Peter Levi, Tennyson
Cecil Woodham Smith, Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times, 1819-61
Florence Nightingale
Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria
Eminent Victorians
20th Century
Henry Pelling, A History of British Trade Unionism [1963]
Jeremy Paxman, The Political Animal
George Monbiot, Captive State; The Corporate Takeover of Britain
Geoffrey Best, Churchill: A Study in Greatness
Liddell Hart, History of the Second World War [1970]
Adam Hochschild, To End all Wars: A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War
General Sir Mike Jackson, Soldier: The Autobiography
Oliver James, Britain on the Couch: Treating a Low Serotonin Society; why we're unhappier now than in the 1950's - despite being richer
John Pilger, Hidden Agendas
A.J.P. Taylor, English History 1914-1945 (Oxford History of England)
British Empire
Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
Peter C. Mancall, Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America
Angus Calder, Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780's
Mark Cocker, Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conflict with Tribal Peoples
Linda Colley, Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850
Brendan Simms, Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire
Frank McLynn, 1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World
Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
Robert Bickers, The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914
John Bowle, The Imperial Achievement: The Rise and Transformation of the British Empire
Fawn Brodie, The Devil Drives: A Life of explorer Richard Burton [1967]
Penderel Moon, Warren Hastings and British India [1947]
Matthew Parker, The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War
Caroline Elkins, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Niall Ferguson, Empire
Bill Nasson, Britannia's Empire: A Short History of the British Empire
Richard Gott, Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt
Stephen A. Grasse, The Evil Empire: 101 Ways that England Ruined the World
Lawrence James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Raj: The Making of British India
Jan Morris, Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
Narindra Singh Sarila, The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition
Jasper Ridley, Palmerston
Karl Meyer & Shareen Brysac, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia
Julia Lovell, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China
Phillip Knightly & Colin Simpson, The Secret Lives of Laurence of Arabia
Richard Toye, Churchill's Empire: The world that made him and the world he made
Donal Morris, The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation under Shaka and its Fall in 1879.
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism [1993]
Orientalism [1978]
T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
Lord Jim
Heart of Darkness
Victory
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Plain Tales from the Hills
General Histories
Kathleen Burk, Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P. Taylor
David Cannadine, G.M. Trevelyan: A Life in History
Norman Davies, The Isles: A History
Christopher Lee, This Sceptred Isle 55BC- 1901: From the Roman Invasion to the Death of Queen Victoria
Hugh Kearney, The British Isles: A History of Four Nations
R.J. Mitchell & M.D.R. Leys (eds.), A History of the English People [1950]
G.M. Trevelyan, British History in the Nineteenth Century and After 1782-1919
A Shortened History of England
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries
R. K. Webb, Modern England, From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
John Davies, A History of Wales
Arvel B. Erickson & Martin J. Havran, England: Prehistory to the present
Roy Strong, The Story of Britain: A People's History
Scotland
GWS Barrow, Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland [1965]
Maggie Craig, Bare-Arsed Banditti: The Men of the '45
George Mac Donald Fraser, The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots [1969]
Michael Fry, Wild Scots: Four Hundred Years of Highland History [2005]
Magnus Magnusson, Scotland: The Story of a Nation [2000]
John Prebble, The Highland Clearances [1963]
Glencoe [1966]
Andrew Murray Scott, Bonnie Dundee: John Graham of Claverhouse
T.C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People, 1560-1830
David Stevenson, Alasdair MacColla and the Highland Problem in the Seventeenth Century
King or Covenant?: Voices from Civil War
Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates
Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, Inglorious Rebellion: The Jacobite Risings of 1708,1715 & 1719 [1971]
Robert Burns, The Works of Robert Burns (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
Ronald Black (ed), An Lasair: Anthology of 18th century Scottish Gaelic Verse
Catherine Carswell, The Life of Robert Burns
Stephen Gwynn, The Life of Sir Walter Scott [1930]
Stuart Kelly, Scott-Land: The Man who Invented a Nation [2010]
Westwood & Kingshill (eds.), The Lore of Scotland: A Guide to Scottish Legends
Literature
M.H. Abrams, (ed.) The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2
Ifor Evans, A Short History of English Literature
Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
Blake
Pat Barker, Regeneration
Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters
Anthony Burgess, Big Wilson, Little God
A Clockwork Orange
Frances Burney, Evelina
Steven Caires, The Joys of Engrish: Strange and wonderful misuses of the English language
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown Stories
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Complete Works
Daniel Defoe, Roxana
Robinson Crusoe
Terrance Dicks, A Riot of Writers: A Romp through English Literature
George Eliot, Silas Marner
Middlemarch
Michael Ferber, The Poetry of Shelley
Stephen Fry, The Liar
Paperweight
H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Tess of the D' Urbervilles
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Woodlanders
Phyllis Hodgson (ed.), The General prologue to the Canterbury Tales [1969]
Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections
Samuel Johnson, A Critical Edition of the Major Works (Oxford Authors)
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Sons and Lovers
Collected Poems
W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
J.M. Morell (ed.), Four English Comedies: Jonson ~ Volpone (1606), Congreve ~ The Way of the World (1700), Goldsmith ~ She Stoops to Conquer (1773), Sheridan ~ The School for Scandal (1777)
George Orwell, 1984
Animal Farm
A Collection of Essays
Roy Porter, Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency
Robert Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys [1908]
Samuel Richardson, Pamela
Bertrand Russell, Freedom Versus Organization, 1776-1914 [1934]
A History of Western Philosophy [1945]
Mortals and Others: American essays, 1931-35, Vol. 1
Unpopular Essays [1950]
Russell's Best [1958]
In Praise of Idleness [1935]
Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Tom Sharpe, Indecent Exposure
Ancestral Vices
William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Stanley Wood ed.)
Romeo & Juliet (T. J B. Spencer ed.)
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part One
The Winter's Tale
Julius Caesar
The Complete Works
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected Poetry
Complete Works
Laurence Stern, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
R. L. Stevenson, Kidnapped
Treasure Island
Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Geoff Ward (ed), Romantic Literature, 1790-1830 (Bloomsbury Guide)
Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust
Irvine Welsh, The Acid House
Trainspotting
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
William Wordsworth, The Complete Works
A.J. Wyatt (ed.), The links of the Canterbury Tales
Phillip Ziegler, Melbourne
Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
The Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe
Mostly Harmless
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Richard Adams, Watership Down
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