History

Name History
Description

A composition, memoir, or anecdote, or record of a place, event, or individual. Works in this category are often derived from the genre designation on the title page.

Titles

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ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
25990 The occasional historian. Numb. IV. Being an historical essay upon, and in defence of English hereditary right. Dedicated to both the universities. By Mr. Earbery. Earbery , Matthias
 1732
26473 The ordinary of Newgate's account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words of Capt. Joseph Halsey, who was executed at Execution-Dock, on Wednesday the fourteenth of March, 1759, for the murder of Daniel Davidson. Roe , Stephen
 1759
2310 The queen of Denmark's account of the late revolution in Denmark; written while Her Majesty was a prisoner in the Castle of Cronenburgh; and now first published from the original manuscript, sent to a noble Earl. Wittelsbach , Mathilde Caroline
 John Wheble [Paternoster Row] (London)
1772
25800 The remembrancer: being a daily chronicle and yearly journal of the remarkable occurrences in Great Britain, and even throughout Europe, from William the Conqueror to the present year 1735. Including not only the Births, Marriages, Coronations, and Deaths of the Sovereign Princes; But the most considerable Battles and Sieges during the late Wars; with the several Alliances and other Treaties betwixt this and foreign Nations; And all the Grand Conspiracies, Rebellions, Massacres, Executions, Plagues, Fires, &c. that have happen'd during the seven last Centuries. Unknown ,
Joseph Fisher (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
John Stagg (London)
John Jolliffe (London)
1735
14560 The Roman history from the foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium: that is, to the end of the Commonwealth. By Mr. Rollin, late principal of the university of Paris, now professor of eloquence in the Royal College, and Member of the Royal Academy of inscriptions and belles lettres. Translated from the French. Rollin , Charles
 George Risk [at Shakespeare's Head] (Dublin)
George and Alexander Ewing (Dublin)
William Smith II [Dame Street] (Dublin)
1740
14381 The Royal assassins. Containing an account of the trial and execution of Francis Ravaillac, for the murder of Henry IV. King of France, A.D. 1610. The trial and execution of Robert Francis Damiens, for Stabbing Lewis XV. King of France A.D. 1757. A narrative of the conviction and execution of the Duke of Aveiro, the Marquis and Marchioness of Tavora, the Earl of Atouguia, &c. &c. for a conspiracy against Joseph, King of Portugal. With an impartial account of the Jesuits transactions in that horrid Conspiracy and their treasonable practices in Portuguese and Spanish America. To which is added, the life of Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. The whole faithfully compiled from authentic vouchers. Published for the improvement and entertainment of the British youth of both sexes. By W.H. Dilworth, A.M. Dilworth , W. H
 1762
25378 The royal progress: or, a historical view of the journeys, or progresses, which several great princes have made to visit their dominions, and acquaint themselves with their people. Unknown ,
1724
25604 The secret history of Pythagoras: part I. Translated from the original copy lately found at Otranto in Italy. By J. W. M.D. W. , J.
 1721
25601 The secret history of the rebels in Newgate. Giving an account of their daily behaviour, from the commitment to their goal-delivery. Taken from a diary, kept by a gentleman in the same prison. The second edition, corrected. Unknown ,
1717 The second edition, corrected.
25470 The secret history of the rebels in Newgate. Giving an account of their daily behaviour, from their commitment to their Goal-Delivery. Taken from a diary kept by a gentleman in the same prison. The Third Edition, Corrected. Unknown ,
1717 The Third Edition, Corrected.
24202 The siege of Calais by Edward of England. An historical novel. Translated from the French original. Guérin de Tencin , Claudine-Alexandrine-Sophie
 Thomas Woodward (London)
Paul Vaillant II (London)
1740
25686 The story on which the new tragedy, call'd, The Roman father, is founded. With some account of the author, and his writings. Unknown ,
1750
25204 The story on which the new tragedy, call'd, The Roman father, is founded. With some account of the author, and his writings. The Second Edition. Unknown ,
1750 The Second Edition.
1694 The study of history. Rendered easy by a plan founded on experience. Dedicated, by permission, to her Majesty. Fletcher , Ann
 1798
25123 The third volume of the compleat history of the lives, robberies, piracies, and murders committed by the most notorious rogues, &c. From the Time of Edward the Confessor. With the Famous Sermon Preach'd by Bernard Sympson a Monk, to a Gang of High way-men in a Wood near Maidenhead-Thicket. Printed from the Original M. S. out of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Together with The Continuation of the wicked Lives of highway-men, murderers, foot-pads, house-breakers, shoplipts, water-pads, kid-lays, hook-pole-lays, molly-lays, bumming-lays, and the surprizing Adventures of several famous pirates, down to the present Time. With the Thieves grammar whereby the Art of Thieving, is fully detected. A Key to the Art of Thieving; newly discovered, whereby several secret Mysteries are unlocked, for the good of the Publick. Never before Printed. Written by Capt. Alex. Smith. Adorn'd with cuts. Smith , Alexander
 Samuel Briscoe (London)
Thomas Warner (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1720
14103 The Voyage of Pizarro and Conquest of Peru. With The Voyage and Shipwreck of Captain Shevlock, in an Expedition Against the Spaniards, Under the Command of Captain Clipperton. Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
John Roe [Houndsditch] (London)
1806
14104 The Voyage of Woodes Rogers, Round the World. With the Discovery of Alexander Selkirk, the Origin of Robinson Crusoe. Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
John Roe [Houndsditch] (London)
1806
26458 The whole tryal of John Swann, and Elizabeth Jeffries, for the murder of her uncle Mr. Joseph Jeffryes, at Walthamstow, in Essex, On the Third Day of July 1751. at the assizes held at Chelmsford in Essex, on Wednesday the 11th of March, 1752. Before the Honourable Sir Martin Wright, and Sir Michael Foster, Knights, Two of his Majesty's Justices of the Court of King's Bench. Being the First Assizes in the Sheriffwick of Sir Edmund Allen, Baronet, High-Sheriff of the said County. To which is prefixed, the will of the deceased Joseph Jeffrys. Swan , John
Jeffreys , Elizabeth
 1752
263 Times of Trial; Being a Brief Narrative of the Progress of the Reformation, and of the Sufferings of Some of the Reformers. By Mary Ann Kelty, Author of "Religious Thoughts" and "The Speculator and the Believer" Kelty , Mary Ann
 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green (London)
Thomas Stevenson (Cambridge)
1830
26422 Vice-Adm--l L-st-k's account of the late engagement near Toulon, between His Majesty's fleet, and the fleets of France and Spain; as presented by him the 12th of March 1744-5. Also, letters to and from Adm---l L-st--k, Relating thereto since his Arrival in England. With notes. Lestock , Richard
 Mary Cooper [The Globe] (London)
1745

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