[3] The four best short histories.

IX.  The Stuart Period (First Part), 1603-1649

The Prose Works of James I (1599-1625) Jesse’s Memoirs of the Court of England. Fuller’s Church History of Britain (earliest times to 1648). Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion (1625-1660). Memoirs of Col.  Hutchinson (1616-1664). May’s History of the Long Parliament (1640-1643).  Carlyle’s Historical Sketches of Reigns of James I and Charles I. Taine’s History of English Literature.  Spedding’s Lord Bacon and his Times.  Gardiner’s History of England (1603-1649).  Church’s Life of Lord Bacon.  Hallam’s Constitutional History of England.  Hume’s History of England (Tory).  Macaulay’s History of England (Whig).  Lingard’s History of England (Catholic). 13 vols.  Strickland’s Queens of England. 10 vols.  Ranke’s History of England in the Seventeenth Century. 5 vols.  Macaulay’s Essays (Bacon, Hampden, Hallam’s History).  Goldwin Smith’s Three English Statesmen (Cromwell, Pym, Hampden).  Cordery’s Struggle against Absolute Monarchy.[1] Cordery and Phillpott’s King and Commonwealth.[1] Gardiner’s Puritan Revolution.[1] Scott’s Fortunes of Nigel (James I).

[1] The three best short histories.

X. The Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 (see Preceding Period)

Gardiner’s History of England (1649-1660).
Ludlow’s Memoirs (1640-1668).
Carlyle’s Life and Letters of Oliver Cromwell. 
Carlyle’s Hero Worship (Cromwell). 
Guizot’s Cromwell and the Commonwealth. 
Morley’s Cromwell. 
Roosevelt’s Cromwell. 
Guizot’s Richard Cromwell. 
Guizot’s Life of Monk. 
Masson’s Life and Times of Milton. 
Bisset’s Omitted Chapters in the History of England. 
Pattison’s Life of Milton. 
Scott’s Woodstock (Cromwell).

XI.  Stuart Period (Second Part) 1660-1714

Evelyn’s Diary (1641-1706).
Pepys’s Diary (1659-1669).
Burnet’s History of his Own Time (1660-1713). 
Macaulay’s History of England (Whig). 
Hallam’s Constitutional History of England. 
Taine’s History of English Literature. 
Strickland’s Queens of England. 
Ranke’s History of England in the Seventeenth Century. 
Hume’s History of England (Tory). 
Brewster’s Life of Newton. 
Lingard’s History of England (Catholic). 13 vols. 
Green’s History fo the English People. 
Stanhope’s History of England. 
Lecky’s History of England in the Eighteenth Century. 
Macaulay’s Essays (Milton, Mackintosh’s History, War of the Spanish
        Succession, and The Comic Dramatists of the Restoration). 
Creighton’s Life of Marlborough. 
Guizot’s History of Civilization (Chapter XIII). 
Morris’s Age of Anne.[1]
Hale’s Fall of the Stuarts.[1]
Cordery’s Struggle against Absolute Monarchy.[1]
Scott’s Peveril of the Peak and Old Mortality (Charles II). 
Thackeray’s Henry Esmond (Anne).

XII.  The Hanoverian Period, 1714 to the Present time