The British History Collection brings together the landmark histories, political memoirs, and constitutional documents that trace England, Scotland, and the wider British Isles from the medieval period through the dawn of the modern era. Thomas Babington Macaulay’s magisterial History of England and David Hume’s earlier account of the same island sit alongside Boswell’s portrait of Georgian London — all offered as free EPUB downloads.
The shelf covers parliamentary history, the British Empire, the Industrial Revolution, and the lives of statesmen and reformers. Works by William Cobbett, John Stuart Mill, and Walter Bagehot give intellectual depth to a collection that doubles as a reading list for anyone serious about Anglophone political culture.
- "Brother Bosch", an Airman's Escape from GermanyGerald Featherstone Knight
- A Book for a Rainy DayJohn Thomas Smith
- A Child’s History of EnglandCharles Dickens
- A Comprehensive History of NorwichA. D. Bayne
- A History of Elizabethan LiteratureGeorge Saintsbury
- A History of HorncastleJ. Conway Walter
- A History of the Coldstream GuardsJ. Ross
- A History of Witchcraft in England, 1558–1718Wallace Notestein
- A Literary History of the English PeopleJ. J. Jusserand
- A Little English GalleryLouise Imogen Guiney
- A Sailor of King GeorgeCaptain Frederick Hoffman
- A Short History of EnglandG. K. Chesterton
- All About BatterseaHenry S. Simmonds
- An Introduction to the IndustrialEdward Potts Cheyney
- Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius CaesarT. Rice Holmes
- Ancient Bronze Implements of Great BritainJohn Evans
- Battles of English HistoryH. B. George
- Bede's Ecclesiastical History of EnglandSaint the Venerable Bede
- Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of ElyW. D. Sweeting
- Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of GloucesterH. J. L. J. Massé
- Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of SalisburyGleeson White
- Bell’s Cathedrals: St Paul’sArthur Dimock
- British Popular CustomsT. F. Thiselton-Dyer
- British SocialismJ. Ellis Barker
- Change in the VillageGeorge Sturt
- Charles I — Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- Chronicle of the Kings of EnglandWilliam of Malmesbury
- Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the FirstSir William Blackstone
- Common SenseThomas Paine
- Coronation AnecdotesGiles Gossip
- Curiosities of Puritan NomenclatureC. W. Bardsley
- Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and CoastsRosalind Northcote
- English Book CollectorsWilliam Younger Fletcher
- English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth CenturyLeslie Stephen
- Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914–1918Sir C. E. Callwell
- Fifteen Chapters of AutobiographyGeorge William Erskine Russell
- Fifty-One Years of Victorian LifeCountess of Jersey
- Forty-One Years in IndiaLord Roberts
- From Chaucer to TennysonHenry A. Beers
- Great Britain at WarJeffery Farnol
- Harris’s List of Covent Garden LadiesAnonymous
- Haunted LondonWalter Thornbury
- History of England to the Norman ConquestThomas Hodgkin
- History of the Scottish RegimentsArchibald K. Murray
- History of the WarGreat Britain. War Office
- History of YarmouthWilliam Finch-Crisp
- Holborn and BloomsburyWalter Besant and G. E. Mitton
- Impressions of South AfricaViscount James Bryce Bryce
- Khartoum Campaign, 1898Bennet Burleigh
- Lectures on the French RevolutionBaron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
- Life of William Ewart GladstoneJohn Morley
- London CityWalter Besant
- Lord John RussellStuart J. Reid
- Lord Milner’s Work in South AfricaW. Basil Worsfold
- Makers of British Botany
- Margaret of Anjou — Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- Mary Queen of ScotsJacob Abbott
- Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral, Vol. 1Sir John Ross
- Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral, Vol. 2Sir John Ross
- Memoirs of the Court of George IVDuke of Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos
- Memoirs of the Court of Queen ElizabethLucy Aikin
- Memoirs of the Jacobites, Vol. 1Mrs. A. T. Thomson
- Memoirs of the Jacobites, Vol. 2Mrs. A. T. Thomson
- Memoirs of the Jacobites, Vol. 3Mrs. A. T. Thomson
- Memorials of Old DerbyshireJ. Charles Cox
- Miss Eden’s LettersEmily Eden
- My Own StoryEmmeline Pankhurst
- Nineteen Centuries of Drink in EnglandRichard Valpy French
- On the Portraits of EnglishSamuel Felton
- Prisoners of War in Britain 1756–1815Francis Abell
- RaleighEdmund Gosse
- Richard I — Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- Richard the Lion HeartKate Norgate
- Robert Curthose, Duke of NormandyCharles W. David
- Royal EdinburghMrs. Oliphant
- Scottish Cathedrals and AbbeysDugald Butler
- Sea Power in its Relations, Vol. 1A. T. Mahan
- Shakespeare’s FamilyC. C. Stopes
- Shakespearean PlayhousesJoseph Quincy Adams
- Sir Walter Ralegh: A BiographyW. Stebbing
- Social Life in the Reign of Queen AnneJohn Ashton
- Some Naval YarnsMordaunt Hall
- Some Reminiscences of Old VictoriaEdgar Fawcett
- South Africa and the TransvaalLouis Creswicke
- St. John's College, CambridgeRobert Forsyth Scott
- State Trials, Political and Social
- Story of the WarA. T. Mahan
- Stray Studies from England and ItalyJohn Richard Greene
- The 1/4 Royal Berkshire RegimentC. R. M. F. Cruttwell
- The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division 1914–1918Frederick P. Gibbon
- The Abolition of the African Slave-TradeThomas Clarkson
- The Battle of New OrleansZ. F. Smith
- The Cathedral Church of CanterburyHartley Withers
- The Children's Book of LondonG. E. Mitton
- The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1George Warburton
- The Court and Cabinets of George IIIDuke of Buckingham and Chandos
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys — CompleteSamuel Pepys
- The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3)Leslie Stephen
- The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. DidoSir Henry Keppel
- The Facts About ShakespeareWilliam Allan Neilson
- The Governments of EuropeFrederic Austin Ogg
- The Great Boer WarArthur Conan Doyle
- The Greville Memoirs, Part 1, Volume 1Charles Greville
- The Grey Friars in OxfordA. G. Little
- The Ground Plan of the English Parish ChurchA. Hamilton Thompson
- The Handbook to English HeraldryCharles Boutell
- The History of Mary PrinceMary Prince
- The Jacobite Rebellions (1689–1746)J. Pringle Thomson
- The Kensington DistrictG. E. Mitton
- The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol. 1Queen of Great Britain Victoria
- The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol. 2Queen of Great Britain Victoria
- The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol. 3Queen of Great Britain Victoria
- The Life of Gordon, Volume IDemetrius Charles Boulger
- The Life of King Edward VIIJ. Castell Hopkins
- The Life of NelsonRobert Southey
- The London Burial GroundsIsabella M. Holmes
- The Love Letters of HenryKing of England Henry VIII
- The Loyalists of America and Their TimesEgerton Ryerson
- The Man ShakespeareFrank Harris
- The Memoirs of Admiral Lord BeresfordBaron Charles William De la Poer Beresford Beresford
- The Naval History, Vol. 2Willis J. Abbot
- The Naval War of 1812Theodore Roosevelt
- The Old East IndiamenE. Keble Chatterton
- The Opium MonopolyEllen N. La Motte
- The Panjab, North-West Frontier and KashmirJames McCrone Douie
- The Post Office in British North AmericaWilliam Smith
- The Press-Gang Afloat and AshoreJ. R. Hutchinson
- The Roll of Honour, Volume 1marquis de Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval
- The Scottish ReformationAlexander F. Mitchell
- The Second Battalion Royal DublinCecil Francis Romer
- The Story of the Malakand Field ForceWinston Churchill
- The Toilers of the FieldRichard Jefferies
- The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger
- The War in South AfricaArthur Conan Doyle
- The Waterloo Roll CallCharles Dalton
- Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and PoetryThomas Davis
- Victorian WorthiesGeorge Henry Blore
- Wellington’s Army, 1809–1814Charles Oman
- William Lilly’s History of His Life and TimesWilliam Lilly
- Witch StoriesE. Lynn Linton
- Witch, Warlock, and MagicianW. H. Davenport Adams
- Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. SeacoleMary Seacole
- Works of Mr. George GillespieGeorge Gillespie
- “The Red Watch”John Allister Currie