Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General

This remarkable 1838 publication, dedicated to the soon-to-be-crowned Queen Victoria, is a review of state ceremonial and court etiquette, giving details of the royal family, and describing the titles, history and roles of all court officials, from the Poet Laureate and the Historiographer Royal to the Clerk of the Closet.

In this 1869 work, Arthur Stanley draws on both the manuscript archives of Westminster Abbey and on the work of earlier historians to describe its foundation, the coronations, the royal tombs, the other monuments to distinguished men and women, and the history of the abbey before and after the Reformation.

Little is known about Thomas Smith, the author of this 1833 history of St Marylebone in London, where he was born and had lived for thirty-six years. The illustrated book describes the boundaries of the parish, its buildings, and some of the famous people who had lived in the district.

The Anglo-Jewish Exhibition of 1887 assembled works of art and artefacts illustrating the history of English Jewry, with later academic enterprises being undertaken as a direct result. This catalogue of the exhibits, published in 1888, also includes a number of full-page photographs.

First published for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1933 and reprinted in 1971, this is an extensive and well-illustrated catalogue of maps of the Yorkshire region, drawn between 1577 and 1900, with informative descriptions. It remains of value to local historians and geographers.

This work, first published in 1905, contains editions and discussion of three mid-fifteenth-century manuscript copies of London chronicles giving detailed insight into the city in the reign of Henry V. It was compiled by the respected historian Charles Lethbridge Kingsford (1862-1926), who published extensively on the period.

Originally published in 1881, this book uses evidence from pamphlets, books, engravings, music and drama to trace the history of London's street traders and their wares from the time of Chaucer to the Victorian period. It includes over 200 illustrations, and vividly portrays the sights and sounds of the city.

Volume 1 of this work, first published in 1662 and reissued here in a two-volume 1811 edition, consists of twenty-five short chapters which explain its organisation, after which England is examined county by county, alphabetically: first, natural resources and manufactures, and then notable people, starting with princes and saints.

Hugh Edward Egerton (1855-1927) was a British barrister and colonial historian. This volume, first published in 1897, contains Egerton's pioneering history of changes in Britain's colonial policy. The first published historical survey of colonial policy, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of changes and developments in Britain's colonial policy.

In great detail the Welsh writer Jane Williams (1806-1885) tells the history of Wales from the settlement of the Cymry in pre-Christian Britain until the Tudors. The work, published in 1869, is based on the use of an impressive range of material, including that of Pliny and Bede.