| 1660 John Ray’s Catalogus Plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium, etc. |
| 1697–1709 Dampier’s Voyages. |
| 1711 The Newcastle Courant. |
| 1712 Swift’s Proposal for correcting, improving and ascertaining the English Tongue. |
| 1712 Woodes Rogers, A cruizing voyage round the World. |
| 1753 The Charter of the British Museum. |
| 1755 Johnson’s Dictionary. |
| 1761 Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse. |
| 1762 Rousseau’s Émile. |
| 1768–71 Cook’s Journal during his first voyage. |
| 1769 Pennant’s Tour in Scotland. |
| 1772 The Morning Post. |
| 1774 Chesterfield’s Letters to his Son. |
| c. 1774 The Newgate Calendar. |
| 1775–81 Priestley’s Experiments and Observations on different kinds of air. |
| 1776 Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. |
| 1778 Priestley’s Miscellaneous Observations relating to Education. |
| 1780 Beginning of Sunday Schools. |
| 1781 V. Knox’s Liberal Education. |
| 1783 Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. |
| 1785 The Times (The Daily Universal Register). |
| 1790 Bewick’s History of Quadrupeds. |
| 1790 Bruce’s Travels to discover the source of the Nile. |
| 1791 The Observer. |
| 1791 Payne’s Rights of Man. |
| 1792 Young’s Travels in France. |
| 1794 The Morning Advertiser. |
| 1795 Lindley Murray’s English Grammar. |
| 1797 ff. Bewick’s History of British Birds. |
| 1797–1814 Wordsworth’s Excursion written. |
| 1798 Practical Education by the Edgeworths. |
| 1798–1805 Wordsworth’s Prelude written. |
| 1798–1836 Samuel Butler, headmaster of Shrewsbury. |
| 1799 Mungo Park’s Travels in Africa. |
| 1800 ff. Mechanics’ institutions. |
| 1801 Strutt’s Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. |
| 1803 Joseph Lancaster’s Improvements in Education. |
| 1803–17 Burney’s History of discoveries in the S. Sea (including History of the Buccaneers). |
| 1808 The Examiner. |
| 1808 ff. Ackermann’s Microcosm of London. |
| 1808–10 Dalton’s New System of Chemical Philosophy. |
| 1809–28 Ackermann’s Repository. |
| 1809 ff. Rowlandson’s and Combe’s Tour of Dr. Syntax. |
| 1810–24 E. D. Clarke’s Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa. |
| 1811 Foundation of “the National Society for promoting the education of the Poor.” |
| 1817 Jerdan’s Literary Gazette. |
| 1817 Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. |
| 1817 The Scotsman. |
| 1818 Hallam’s Europe during the Middle Ages. |
| 1818 ff. Pierce Egan’s Boxiana. |
| 1819 ff. Lingard’s History of England. |
| 1821 James Mill’s Political Economy. |
| 1821 ff. Pierce Egan’s Life in London. |
| 1823 and 1828 Sir John Franklin’s Narrative of a Journey to the … Polar Sea. |
| 1825 Crofton Croker’s Fairy Legends and Traditions of Ireland. |
| 1825 Waterton’s Wanderings. |
| 1825 Westmacott’s The English Spy. |
| 1826 Whately’s Elements of Logic. |
| 1826 ff. Hone’s Every-Day Book. |
| 1826–35 Constable’s Miscellany. |
| 1827 Hallam’s Constitutional History of England. |
| 1827 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. |
| 1827 Foundation of the university of London. |
| 1828 The Athenaeum. |
| 1828 The Spectator. |
| 1828–42 Arnold at Rugby. |
| 1829 James Mill’s Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind. |
| 1829 ff. Murray’s Family Library. |
| 1829–33 Sir William Hamilton’s articles The Philosophy of the Unconditioned, The Philosophy of Perception, Logic. |
| 1830 Accession of King William IV. |
| 1830 Comte’s Cours de philosophie positive. |
| 1830 Moore’s Life of Byron. |
| 1830–49 Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopaedia. |
| 1831 Brewster’s Treatise on Optics. |
| 1831 First meeting of the British Association. |
| 1831 Trelawny’s Adventures of a Younger Son. |
| 1831 ff. Lyell’s Geology. |
| 1832 Carleton’s Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. |
| 1834 Mary Somerville’s The Connection of the Physical Sciences. |
| 1835 ff. Chambers’s Information for the People. |
| 1837 Accession of Queen Victoria. |
| 1837 Whewell’s History of the Inductive Sciences. |
| 1837–8 Lockhart’s Life of Scott. |
| 1837–9 Hallam’s Literature of Europe during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. |
| 1838 Lover’s Handy Andy. |
| 1839 ff. Taylor’s Confessions of a Thug. |
| 1839–55 Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity. |
| 1841 Lever’s Charles O’Malley. |
| 1841 Miller’s Old Red Sandstone. |
| 1841 Punch. |
| 1842 Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome. |
| 1842 “Nimrod’s” Life of a Sportsman. |
| 1843 Borrow’s Bible in Spain. |
| 1843 Hood’s Song of the Shirt. |
| 1843 Macaulay’s Essays contributed to the Edinburgh Review. |
| 1843 John Stuart Mill’s System of Logic. |
| 1843 Surtees’s Handley Cross. |
| 1843 ff. Ruskin’s Modern Painters. |
| 1844 Chambers’s Vestiges of Creation. |
| 1844 Kinglake’s Eothen. |
| 1844 E. Warburton’s The Crescent and the Cross. |
| 1845 Ford’s Handbook for travellers in Spain. |
| 1845 J. T. Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day. |
| 1846 The Guardian. |
| 1846 Jerrold’s Mrs. Caudle. |
| 1846 ff. Bohn’s Standard Library. |
| 1847 Herman Melville’s Omoo. |
| 1847 ff. Sir Arthur Helps’s Friends in Council. |
| 1848 John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy. |
| 1848 ff. Macaulay’s History of England. |
| 1849 Curzon’s Visits to Monasteries in the Levant. |
| 1849 Ruskin’s Seven Lamps of Architecture. |
| 1849 Sir James Stephen’s Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography. |
| 1850 The Germ. |
| 1851 Borrow’s Lavengro. |
| 1851 A. H. Layard’s Nineveh. |
| 1851 Foundation of Owens College, Manchester. |
| 1851–3 Ruskin’s Stones of Venice. |
| 1852 Newman’s Scope and Nature of a University Education. |
| 1852 Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell’s The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V. |
| 1852–5 Cassell’s Popular Educator. |
| 1853 A. R. Wallace, Travels on the Amazon. |
| 1853 ff. Burton’s History of Scotland. |
| 1853–6 The Crimean war. |
| 1853–87 Edward Thring headmaster of Uppingham. |
| 1854 J. F. Ferrier’s Institutes of Metaphysic. |
| 1854 The Working Men’s College. |
| 1855 The Saturday Review. |
| 1855–6 Sir R. Burton’s Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecca. |
| 1856–70 Froude’s History of England. |
| 1857 Livingstone’s Missionary Travels in S. Africa. |
| 1857–8 The Indian mutiny. |
| 1857–61 Buckle’s History of Civilization in England. |
| 1858 ff. Brown’s Horae Subsecivae. |
| 1859 Darwin’s Origin of Species. |
| 1859 John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty. |
| 1859 Peaks, Passes and Glaciers. |
| 1859–80 Masson’s Life of Milton. |
| 1860 Essays and Reviews. |
| 1860 Burton’s Book Hunter. |
| 1860 Ruskin’s Unto this Last. |
| 1860 Herbert Spencer’s Programme of a System of Synthetic Philosophy. |
| 1861 Sir Henry Maine’s Ancient Law. |
| 1861 Herbert Spencer’s Education. |
| 1861 Tennent’s Natural History of Ceylon. |
| 1861–3 John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism. |
| 1863 Bates: The Naturalist on the Amazons. |
| 1863 Huxley’s Man’s Place in Nature. |
| 1863 Alexander Smith’s Dreamthorp. |
| 1863 Speke’s Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile. |
| 1863 Tyndall’s Heat as a Mode of Motion. |
| 1863–82 Gardiner’s History of England. |
| 1863–87 Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea. |
| 1864 Babbage’s Passages from the Life of a Philosopher. |
| 1864 F. P. Cobbe’s Broken Lights. |
| 1865 John Grote’s Exploratio Philosophica, part I. |
| 1865 Lecky’s History of Rationalism in Europe. |
| 1865 Milton and Cheadle’s North West Passage by Land. |
| 1865 W. G. Palgrave’s Central and Eastern Arabia. |
| 1865 The Pall Mall Gazette. |
| 1865 Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies. |
| 1865 Seeley’s Ecce Homo. |
| 1865 J. H. Stirling’s Secret of Hegel. |
| 1866 Hinton’s Mystery of Pain. |
| 1866 The Public School Latin Primer. |
| 1866 Ruskin’s Crown of Wild Olive. |
| 1866 Ruskin’s Ethics of the Dust. |
| 1866–1902 Rogers’s History of Agriculture and Prices in England from 1259 to 1793. |
| 1867 W. Bagehot’s The English Constitution. |
| 1867 J. S. Mill’s Inaugural Address to the university of St Andrews. |
| 1867 F. Seebohm’s The Oxford Reformers. |
| 1867–76 Freeman’s Norman Conquest. |
| 1868 Dilke’s Greater Britain. |
| 1869 Lecky’s History of European Morals. |
| 1869 Henry Crabb Robinson’s Diary. |
| 1869 A. R. Wallace’s The Malay Archipelago. |
| 1870 Education Act. |
| 1870 L. Oliphant’s Piccadilly. |
| 1870–1 Franco-Prussian war. |
| 1870–93 Benjamin Jowett, master of Balliol. |
| 1871 Abolition of religious tests at Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. |
| 1871 R. H. Hutton’s Essays Theological and Literary. |
| 1871 ff. Ruskin’s Fors Clavigera. |
| 1872 T. Cooper’s Life, written by himself. |
| 1872 The Light Green (A. C. Hilton). |
| 1872 Augustus de Morgan’s Budget of Paradoxes. |
| 1872 W. W. Reade’s The Martyrdom of Man. |
| 1872 The voyage of “The Challenger.” |
| 1873 Mill’s Autobiography. |
| 1874 Green’s Short History of the English People. |
| 1874 W. S. Jevons’s Principles of Science. |
| 1874 Henry Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics. |
| 1874 Tyndall’s Belfast Address. |
| 1874–8 Stubbs’s Constitutional History of England. |
| 1874–9 Sir Leslie Stephen’s Hours in a Library. |
| 1874–87 The Greville Memoirs. |
| 1875 Mark Pattison’s Isaac Casaubon. |
| 1875 ff. J. A. Symonds’s Renaissance in Italy. |
| 1876 Mind. |
| 1876 “Father Prout’s” Reliques. |
| 1876 Sir Leslie Stephen’s History of English Thought in the 18th century. |
| 1877–8 Russo-Turkish war. |
| 1878 Jefferies’s Gamekeeper at Home. |
| 1878 Stevenson’s An Inland Voyage. |
| 1878–90 Lecky’s History of England in the 18th century. |
| 1879 The Cambridge Review. |
| 1879 Lang’s translation of the Odyssey. |
| 1879 Roma&nmacr;es: Animal Intelligence. |
| 1879 Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. |
| 1879–82 Skeat’s Etymological Dictionary. |
| 1880–1 Balfour’s Treatise on Comparative Embryology. |
| 1881 Fitch’s Lectures on Teaching. |
| 1882 Seeley’s Natural Religion. |
| 1882–94 Creighton’s History of the Papacy. |
| 1883 Galton’s Inquiries into the Human Faculty. |
| 1883 T. H. Green’s Prolegomena to Ethics. |
| 1883 Jefferies’s The Story of my Heart. |
| 1883 Seeley’s Expansion of England. |
| 1883 Stevenson’s Treasure Island. |
| 1883 The oxford Magazine. |
| 1884 The Croker Papers. |
| 1884 ff. The Oxford English Dictionary. |
| 1885 W. K. Clifford’s Common Sense of the Exact Sciences. |
| 1885 James Martineau’s Types of Ethical Theory. |
| 1885 Pater’s Marius the Epicurean. |
| 1885 Stevenson’s Prince Otto. |
| 1885 ff. The Dictionary of National Biography. |
| 1886 Froude’s Oceana. |
| 1886 Emily Lawless’s Hurrish. |
| 1886 Stevenson’s Kidnapped. |
| 1887 Jessopp’s Arcady for better for worse. |
| 1887 Laughton’s Studies in Naval History. |
| 1887 J. A. Cotter Morison’s Service of Man. |
| 1887–1905 G. B. Hill’s editions of Boswell’s Johnson, etc. |
| 1889 J. Caird’s Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. |
| 1889 The Scots Observer. |
| 1889 Stevenson’s Master of Ballantrae. |
| 1890 Henley’s Views and Reviews. |
| 1893 F. H. Bradley’s Appearance and Reality. |
| 1893 C. H. Pearson’s National Life and Character. |
| 1893 Stevenson’s Catriona. |
| 1895 Pollock and Maitland’s History of English Law before the time of Edward I. |
| 1895 Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of being Earnest. |
| 1896 Stevenson’s Weir of Hermiston. |
| 1898 Shadworth Hodgson’s Metaphysic of Experience. |
| 1900 Sir Leslie Stephen’s English Utilitarians. |
| 1901 Accession of King Edward VII. |
| 1903 Sir W. Laird Clowes’s The Royal Navy. |
| 1905 MacCarthy’s History of Our Own Times. |
| 1907 Synge’s Playboy of the Western World. |
| 1910 Accession of King George V. |
| 1910–11 The Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edn. |
| 1913 R. F. Scott’s Journal. |