British History
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Only by Experience: An Anthology of Slave Narratives
Only by Experience: An Anthology of Slave Narratives collects, in whole or in part, sixteen of the most significant and influential slave narratives in English.…
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Irish-English Relations: A History in Documents
In 1919, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland noted that “there is a path of fatality which…
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Investigating Cholera in Broad Street: A History in Documents
This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of…
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London Labour and the London Poor
Produced between 1850 and 1862, London Labour and the London Poor is one of the most significant examples of nineteenth-century oral history. The collection teems…
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The Great Irish Famine: A History in Documents
In the fall of 1845, a mysterious blight ravaged Ireland’s potato harvest, beginning a prolonged period of starvation, suffering, and emigration that reduced the Irish…
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The Trial of Charles I: A History in Documents
In January 1649, after years of civil war, King Charles I stood trial in a specially convened English court on charges of treason, murder, and…
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The Second Treatise of Civil Government
In this, the second of his Two Treatises of Government, John Locke examines humankind’s transition from its original state of nature to a civil society.…
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Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
A contemporary critic described Ignatius Sancho as “what is very uncommon for men of his complexion, A man of letters.” A London shopkeeper, former butler,…
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On Liberty – Ed. Kahn
In this work, Mill reflects on the struggle between liberty and authority and defends the view that “the only purpose for which power can be…
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A Letter Concerning Toleration
Locke argued that religious belief ought to be compatible with reason, that no king, prince or magistrate rules legitimately without the consent of the people,…
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Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects
This is the first edition in over a century to present David Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Dissertation on the Passions, Enquiry Concerning the Principles…
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a masterpiece of medieval English literature and one of the finest Arthurian tales in any language. Though its…
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The Turkish Embassy Letters
In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accompanied her husband…
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An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Over a series of elegantly written, engaging essays, the Enquiry examines the experiential and psychological sources of meaning and knowledge, the foundations of reasoning about…
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Leviathan – Revised Edition
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. Beginning with premises that…
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Leviathan, Parts I and II – Revised Edition
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. Beginning with premises that…
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Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano
When abolitionists Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano published their essays on slavery in the late eighteenth century, they became key participants in one of the…
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Utopia
This volume includes the full text of More’s 1516 classic, Utopia, together with a wide range of background contextual materials. For this edition the G.C.…
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The History of the Kings of Britain
The History of the Kings of Britain is arguably the most influential text written in England in the Middle Ages. The work narrates a linear…
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Suffragette Sally
Published in 1911, Suffragette Sally is one of the best-known popular novels promoting the cause of women’s suffrage in Britain at the beginning of the…
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The Scottish Chiefs
Rooted in political controversy, gender warfare, violence, and revolution, Jane Porter’s The Scottish Chiefs is the epic story of William Wallace’s struggle for Scottish independence…
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Factory Lives
Factory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown’s A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodd’s A…
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The Distaff Gospels
The Distaff Gospels (Les Évangiles des Quenouilles), a fascinating fifteenth-century collection of more than 250 popular beliefs, constitutes a kind of encyclopedia of late medieval…
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The Idea of Being Free
Mary Hays (1759-1843) is often best remembered for her early revolutionary novels The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice. In this collection,…