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LOCAL HISTORY
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham,
by Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14472
An History of Birmingham (1783),
by William Hutton
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13926
The Natural History of Wiltshire,
by John Aubrey (1622-97)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4934
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems,
by F. W. Moorman (1872-1919)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2888
SOCIAL HISTORY
The History of the Telephone,
by Herbert Newton Casson (1869-1951)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/819
The Social History of Smoking,
by George Latimer Apperson (1857-1937)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18096
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
The Voyage of the Beagle,
by Charles Darwin (1809-82)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/944
On the Origin of Species,
by Charles Darwin (1809-82)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1228
William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood,
by Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2939
History of the Plague Year,
by Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17221
Records of a Family of Engineers,
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/280
ENGLISH HISTORY
A Child's History of England,
by Charles Dickens (1812-70)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/699
Also available in MP3 audio
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9690
Comic History of England
by Bill Nye (1850-96)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11138
History of the Early Part of the Reign of James II
by Charles James Fox (1749-1806)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4245
William the Conqueror
by EA Freeman (1823-92)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1066
London in 1731
by Don Manoel Gonzales
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2822
Lectures on Modern History
by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18685
History of King Charles the Second of England
by Jacob Abbott (1803-79)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6659
The History of England from the Norman Conquest
by George Burton Adams (1851-1925)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8556
WELSH HISTORY
Short History of Wales
by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards (1858-1920)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3260
SCOTTISH HISTORY
A Short History of Scotland
by Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15955
The Scottish Chiefs
by Jane Porter (1776-1850)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6086
IRISH HISTORY
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
by Mary Frances Cusack (1830-99)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14754
A Popular History of Ireland: from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics
by Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-68)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6634
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902), by John O'Rourke
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14412
BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND DIARIES
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
by Charles Darwin (1809-82)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2010
Eminent Victorians
by Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2447
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1871-1964)
by James Boswell (1740-95)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1564
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
by Robert Southey (1774-1843)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/947
Diary of John Evelyn
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/1914/ed_main.html
The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain
by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/939
Autobiography and Selected Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1315
Chaucer's Official Life
by James Root Hulbert (1884-1969)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6565
Who was who: 5000BC to 1914 – biographical dictionary of the famous and those who wanted to be
edited by Irwin Leslie Gordon, 1887-1954
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/984
MILITARY AND NAVAL HISTORY
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
by Sir John Barrow (1764-1848)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14424
The Record of a Regiment of the Line: Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902
by M Jacson
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15972
Types of Naval Officers: Drawn from the History of the British Navy
by AT Mahan (1840-1914)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18314
WORLD HISTORY
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)
by Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10633
The French Revolution
by Thomas Carlisle (1995-1881)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1301
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