Politics

Biography of John Morley, First Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838-1923), British Liberal Statesman, Writer and Newspaper Editor (Pall Mall Gazette...

Biography of John Russell and his wife, Kate Stanley - Lord and Lady Amberley. Both were born in 1842. John Russell was a British writer and politi...

The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV. and the Regency. Translated from the French by Bayle St. John. In Three Volumes, ...

The Secretaries of State for Scotland 1926-76; Fifty Years of the Scottish Office. By George Pottinger. Published by Scottish Academic Press, Edinb...

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-1983); The First Two Hundred Years, by Neil Campbell and R. Martin Smellie. With a Foreword by the Hon. Lord C...

Autobiography of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933), Liberal politician and statesman, and key figure behind Britain's foreign ...

2 Volume biography of Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury (1800-1873), British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician who became Lord Chancellor of G...

Founded in 1817, and initially called Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, it was more successfully relaunched as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Also known...

A scarce collection of the records of Edinburgh City Council in 5 volumes, covering the period 1913-1918. A record of their activities during the e...

A scarce collection of comprehensive financial accounts for the City of Edinburgh. We have been unable to trace any other copies in institutional h...

The Penny Pictorial Magazine, 3 bound volumes of issues, 1899-1900. The Penny Pictorial Magazine was sold weekly and its one penny price tag was de...

Democratic Readings from the World's Great Teachers. Reprinted from "Reynolds's Newspaper." Compiled and Edited by W.M. Thompson, L.C.C. Numerous P...

The Expansion of England; Two Courses of Lectures, by J. Seeley. Published by Macmillan and Co., London and New York, 1886. Printed in Great Britai...

The Student's Gibbon; History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon. Abridged, Incorporating the Researches of Recent Comme...

Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay. Authorised Edition. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., L...

Ward, Lock and Co.'s Popular Library of Literary Treasures. Edited by G.T. Bettany, M.A.; 4 volumes bound as one; On Decision of Character and On A...

Fifty-Two Stories of The Indian Mutiny, and The Men Who Saved India. By Alfred H. Miles and Arthur John Pattle. Published by Hutchinson & Co, L...

Ministry of Reconstruction 1919; Reconstruction Problems Parts 23-38 in leather bound volume. This volume comprises a variety of UK Government Pamp...

Cynicus, the pen name of Martin Anderson, was a Scottish artist, political and satirical cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. Born in 18...

Cynicus, the pen name of Martin Anderson, was a Scottish artist, political and satirical cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. Born in 18...

The Graphic; An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper; A bound set of approximately 7 months of The Graphic magazine in a typical library binding. Comprisin...

William St Clair Slavery Research Materials - a collection of slavery reference books from his library, along with 2 personal copies of his publish...

Cassell's Illustrated Readings, First and Second Series bound as one. An illustrated compendium of 'Penny Readings' to be read and shared with the ...

The Great Dominion; Studies of Canada, with Maps, by George R. Parkin, M.A., Hon LL.D. Univ. New Brunswick. Much of the contents was published in '...