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.[1]
Rowley’s Rise of the People.[1]
Warburton’s Edward III.[1]
Shakespeare’s John and Richard (Hudson’s edition). 
Scott’s Ivanhoe and The Talisman (Richard I and John).

[1] 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.[2]
Rowley’s Rise of the People.[2]
Shakespeare’s Henry IV, V, and VI (Hudson’s edition).

[2] 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.[2]
Rowley’s Rise of the People.[2]
Shakespeare’s Henry IV, V, and VI (Hudson’s edition).

[2] The two best short histories.

VIII.  The Tudor Period, 1461-1485.

Holinshed’s History of England (from earliest times to 1577).
Lord Bacon’s Life of Henry VII.
Latimer’s 1st and 6th Sermons before Edward VI and “The Ploughers”
        (1549).
Hall’s Chronicle (1398-1509). 
Hallam’s Constitutional History of England. 
Lingard’s History of England (Catholic) 13 vols. 
Brewer’s Reign of Henry VIII. 
Creighton’s Cardinal Wolsey. 
Gibbins’s Social Reformers (Sir Thomas More). 
Froude’s History of England. 
Strickland’s Queens of England (Catharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn,
        Mary, Elizabeth). 
Demaus’s Life of Latimer. 
Froude’s Short Studies. 
Nicholls’s Life of Cabot. 
Dixon’s History of the Church of England. 
Hall’s Society in the Age of Elizabeth. 
Thornbury’s Shakespeare’s England. 
Macaulay’s Essay on Lord Burleigh. 
Barrows’s Life of Drake. 
Creighton’s Life of Raleigh.[3]
Seebohm’s Era of the Protestant Revolution.[3]
Moberly’s Early Tudors.[3]
Creighton’s Age of Elizabeth.[3]
Shakespeare’s Henry VIII (Hudson’s edition). 
Scott’s Kenilworth, Abbot, Monastery (Elizabeth and Mary Queen of
        Scots).