Part 120

General Histories

Oman, C. History of England (earliest times to the present). 7 vols. Putnam's Sons, N.Y. ($3.00 per vol.). Gardiner, S.R. A Student's History of England, illustrated, 3 vols. Longmans, N.Y. ($3.50); or bound in one very thick volume ($3.00). Tout, T.F. History of England, 1 vol. Longmans, N.Y. ($1.50). Gardiner, S.R. English History. Holt, N.Y. (80 cents). (For young folks.) Smith, Goldwin. The United Kingdom, a Political History, 2 vols. The Macmillan Company, N.Y. ($4.00). Bright, J.F. History of England, 4 vols. Longmans, N.Y. ($6.75). Green, J.R. A Short History of the English People, 1 vol. Harper & Bros., N.Y. ($2.00); the same beautifully illustrated, 4 vols. ($20.00). Brewer, J.S. The Student's Hume, 1 vol. Murray, London (7s 6d). Creighton, M. Epochs of English History, 6 small vols. in one. Longmans, N.Y. ($1.25). Knight, C. The Popular History of England, 9 vols., illustrated. Warne, London (5 pounds 3s.).

English Constitutional History

Ransome, C. Rise of Constitutional Government in England, 1 vol. Longmans, N.Y. ($2.00). (An excellent short constitutional history.) Taswell-Langmead, T.P. English Constitutional Histry, new and revised edition, 1 vol. Stevens & Haynes, London ($3.12). (This is the best complete constitutional history of England.) Feilden, H.St.C. A Short Constitutional History of England (revised edition), 1 vol. Ginn and Company, Boston ($1.25). (This is a reference manual of exceptional value.)

General Works of Reference

Cannon, H.L. Reading References for English History, 1 vol. Ginn and Company, Boston ($2.50). (This is a work practically indispensible to both teachers and students. See further, p. xl.) Low and Pulling. Dictionary of English History (revised edition), 1 vol. Cassell, N.Y. ($3.50). Gardiner, S.R. A School Atlas of English History, 1 vol. Longmans, N.Y. ($1.50). Lee, G.C. Source-Book of English History (giving leading documents, etc.), 1 vol. Holt & Co., N.Y. ($2.00). Cheyney, E.P. Readings in English History, 1 vol. Ginn and Company, Boston ($1.80). Kendall, E.K. Source-Book of English History, 1 vol. The Macmillan Company, N.Y. (80 cents). Acland and Ransome. English Political History in Outline. Longmans, N.Y. ($1.25). (Excellent for reference.) Powell, J. York. English History from Contemporary Writers, 16 vols. Nutt & Co., London (1s. per vol.) (A series of great value.) Cheyney, E.P. Industrial and Social History of England, 1 vol. The Macmillan Company, N.Y. ($1.40). Gibbins, H. de B. An Industrial History of England, 1 vol Scribner's, N.Y. ($1.20). Cunningham and MacArthur. Outlines of English Industrial History. The Macmillan Company, N.Y. ($1.50). Church, A.J. Early Britain. (Story of the Nations Series.) Putnams, N.Y. ($1.50). Story, A.T. The Building of the British Empire, 2 vols. Putnams, N.Y. ($3.00). McCarthy, J. The Story of the People of England in the XIXth Century, 2 vols. Putnams, N.Y. ($3.00).

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Works of Reference to be found in Libraries

Hunt, W., and Poole, R.L. Political History of England (earliest times to the present). 12 vols. Traill, H.D. Social England, 6 vols. The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 29 vols. Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 10 vols. Nelson's Encyclopaedia, 12 vols. The International Encyclopaedia, 17 vols. The New Encyclopaedia Americana, 15 vols. The Catholic Encyclopaedia, 15 vols. The Jewish Encyclopaedia, 12 vols. Stephen, L. Dictionary of National [British] Biography, 66 vols. (A work of the highest rank.) Adams's Manual of Historical Literature. Mullinger's Authorities on English History. Bailey's Succession to the Crown (with full genealogical tables). Henderson's Side Lights on English History. Poole's Index to Reviews.

I. The Prehistoric Period

Dawkin's's Early Man in Britain. Wright's The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon. Elton's Origins of English History. Rhys's Celtic Britain. Geoffrey of Monmouth's Chronicle (legendary). Geike's Influence of Geology on English History, in Macmillan's Magazine, 1882.

II. The Roman Period, 55, 54 B.C.; A.D. 43-410

*Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War (Books IV and V, chiefly 55, 54 B.C.) *Tacitus' Agricola and Annals (chiefly from 78-84). *Gildas' History of Britain (whole period). *Bede's Ecclesiastical History of Britain (whole period). Wright's The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon. Elton's Origins of English History. Pearson's England during the Early and Middle Ages. Scarth's Roman Britain.

The best short history.

III. The Saxon or Early English Period, 449-1066

*The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (whole period). *Gildas' History of Britain (Roman Conquest to 560). *Bede's Ecclesiastical History of Britain (earliest times to 731). *Nennius' History of Britain (earliest times to 642). *Geoffrey of Monmouth's Chronicle (legendary) (earliest times to 689). *Asser's Life of Alfred the Great. Elton's Origins of English History. Pauli's Life of Alfred. Green's Making of England. Green's Conquest of England. Freeman's Norman Conquest, Vols. I-II. Pearson's History of England during the Early and Middle Ages. Freeman's Origin of the English Nation. Stubbs's Constitutional History of England. Taine's History of English Literature. Church's Beginning of the Middle Ages. Armitage's Childhood of the English Nation. Freeman's Early English History.

The two best short histories.

IV. The Norman Period 1066-1154

*The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Peterborough continuation) (whole period) *Ordericus Vitalis' Ecclesiastical History (to 1141). *Wace's Roman de Rou (Taylor's translation) (to 1106). *Bruce's Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated (with plates). *William of Malmesbury's Chronicle (to 1142). *Roger of Hoveden's Chronicle (whole period). Freeman's Norman Conquest. Church's Life of Anselm. Taine's History of English Literature. Stubbs's Constitutional History of England. Freeman's Short History of the Norman Conquest. Armitage's Childhood of the English Nation. Johnson's Normans in Europe. Creighton's England a Continental Power.

The four best short histories.

V. The Angevin Period, 1154-1399

*Matthew Paris's Chronicle (1067-1253). *Richard of Devizes's Chronicle (1189-1192). *Froissart's Chronicles (1325-1400). *Jocelin of Brakelonde's Chronicle (1173-1102) (see Carlyle's Past and Present, Book II). Norgate's Angevin Kings. Taine's History of English Literature. Anstey's William of Wykeham. Pearson's England in the Early and Middle Ages. Maurice's Stephen Langton. Creighton's Life of Simon de Montfort. Stubbs's Constitutional History of England. Gairdner and Spedding's Studies in English History (the Lollards). Blade's Life of Caxton. Seebohm's Essay on the Black Death, in Fortnightly Review, 1865. Maurice's Wat Tyler, Ball, and Oldcastle. Gibbins's English Social Reformers (Langland and John Ball). Buddensieg's Life of Wiclif. J. York Powell's History of England. Burrows's Wicklif's Place in History. Pauli's Pictures of Old England. Stubbs's Early Plantagenets. Rowley's Rise of the People. Warburton's Edward III. Shakespeare's John and Richard (Hudson's edition). Scott's Ivanhoe and The Talisman (Richard I and John).

The three best short histories.

VI. The Lancastrian Period, 1399-1461

*The Paston Letters (Gairdner's edition) (1424-1506). *Fortescue's Governance of England (Plummer's edition) (1460?). *Hall's Chronicle (1398-1509). Brougham's England under the House of Lancaster. Besant's Life of Sir Richard Whittington. Taine's English Literature. Rand's Chaucer's England. Stubbs's Constitutional History of England. Strickland's Queens of England (Margaret of Anjou). Reed's English History in Shakespeare. Gairdner's Houses of Lancaster and York. Rowley's Rise of the People. Shakespeare's Henry IV, V, and VI (Hudson's edition).

The two best short histories.

VII. The Yorkist Period, 1461-1485

*The Paston Letters (Gairdner's edition) (1424-1506) *Sir Thomas More's Edward V and Richard III *Hall's Chronicle (1398-1509) Hallam's Middle Ages. Gairdner's Richard III. Taine's English Literature. Stubbs's Constitutional History of England. Gairdner's Houses of Lancaster and York. Rowley's Rise of the People. Shakespeare's Henry IV, V, and VI (Hudson's edition).