Pamela Nagami
Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st Duke of Orford (1676-1745), is generally regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain. This is a short biograph…
Cromwell's Place in History
In the autumn of 1896, the renowned historian of the 17th century, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, delivered six lectures on "Cromwell's Place …
Women of Versailles: the Court of Louis XIV
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…
Life of Viscount Palmerston
This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreig…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume IV
Volume Four of Creighton's "History of the Papacy" opens with the election of Pope Paul II, whom the author describes as "a m…
The Renaissance and the Reformation: A Textbook of European History 1494-1610
Dame Emmeline Tanner writes of the Renaissance that its "special characteristic was the revolt against authority and the rise to import…
Edward III
Edward III reigned for fifty years, from 1327 to 1377. William Warburton writes that "the backbone of the story of his reign and times …
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV
The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…
Philip Augustus
Philip Augustus (Philip II of France 1165-1223), grandfather of Saint Louis, was one of France's greatest kings. While England's Henry II wa…
Lectures on Tropical Diseases
This short volume consists of the ten lectures which Sir Patrick Manson, medical adviser to the Colonial Office, delivered in San Francisco …
A Greater than Napoleon, Scipio Africanus
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (c. 236-c.183 B.C.) was one of the greatest military tacticians and strategists of all time. Only in his …
Locke
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician who, after Sir Francis Bacon, was one of the first of the British empiricist…
The Story of Gladstone's Life
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, dominated the Liberal Party for thirty years, but ultimatel…
Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to that of Domitian
William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire…
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
"Few women have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [1759-1797], and few have been the objects…
The Partition of Europe: A Textbook of European History 1715-1815
Philip Guedalla writes, "History is the most interesting part of geography, and European history is particularly dependent upon the con…
The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries, Volume 1
Leopold von Ranke was a German Lutheran historian and a founder of modern historical writing based on primary sources. This is a panoramic a…
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (Marguerite de Navarre), (1492-1549), was the sister of Francis I, King of France. She was hig…
The Athenian Empire
The British historian, George W. Cox writes that the "whole duration of the Athenian empire extends over little more than two generatio…
Richelieu
This short biography of the dreaded red eminence, by the Anglo-French writer and educator, Gustave Masson, combines French wit and English c…