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Free History Books - Great Britain and Ireland
  1. A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens (Gutenberg text)

  2. A Healing Question by Henry Vane (HTML at BiblioBytes)

  3. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 29 Feb 2000)

  4. A Short History of Gateshead by Ian Clark Carlton and F. W. D. Manders (HTML in the UK)

  5. A Sketch of the Life of Capt. Hedley Vicars, the Christian Soldier (1863) by Catherine Marsh (HTML and TEI at UNC)

  6. A View of the Present State of Ireland by Edmund Spenser (HTML at Oregon)

  7. Certaine Reasons and Arguments of Policie, Why the King of England Should Enter Into Warre with the Spaniard by Thomas Scott (HTML at Oregon)

  8. England's Great Happiness: or, A Dialogue Between Content and Complaint (text at McMaster)

  9. Henry the Seventh by James Gairdner (HTML at simplenet.com)

  10. History of the Britons by Nennius, trans. by John Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)

  11. History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, trans. by Aaron Thompson and J. A. Giles (PDF at In Parentheses)

  12. History of the Scottish Nation by James Aitken Wylie (HTML with commentary at reformation.org)

  13. Letters From England, 1846-1849 by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (Gutenberg text)

  14. Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)

  15. Queen Victoria, Her Girlhood and Womanhood (Montreal : Dawson Bros., 1883) by Grace Greenwood (page images at canadiana.org)

  16. Royalty Restored: or, London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (Gutenberg text)

  17. Selected Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Mary Wortley Montagu, ed. by Richard Bear
    1. HTML at uoregon.edu
    2. HTML at Virginia

  18. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, trans. by James Ingram (Gutenberg text)

  19. The Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith: 1787-1819 by Harry Smith, ed. by G. C. Moore Smith (HTML in New Zealand)

  20. The Concise Pepys (from the 1825 edition) by Samuel Pepys, ed. by Richard Braybrooke (HTML at Bibliomania)

  21. The History of Britain by John Milton (text at UBC)

  22. The History of King Richard the Third by Thomas More (HTML at Oregon)

  23. The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis (Gutenberg text)

  24. The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey (Gutenberg text)

  25. The Life of King Alfred by John Asser, trans. by J. A. Giles (HTML at OMACL)

  26. The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper (HTML at Fordham)

  27. The Normans in South Wales, 1070-1171 by Lynn H. Nelson (HTML at Kansas)

  28. The Political House that Jack Built by William Hone, ed. by Kyle Grimes, illust. by George Cruikshank (illustrated HTML with commentary at UMD)

  29. The Story of Thomas More by John Farrow (text at EWTN)

  30. The Struggle Against Absolute Monarchy, 1603-1688 (Toronto: A. Miller, 1877) by Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner (page images at canadiana.org)

  31. Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches (Cassell, 1886) by Edmund Burke (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 May 2000)

  32. Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

  33. Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Henry Borrow (Gutenberg text; 1.3 MB)