The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.: From the Accession of George III. to the Twenty-Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria

This is 19th-century historiography at its most ambitious. Edward Farr picks up England's story at the moment George III ascends the throne in 1760, carrying his narrative through nearly eight decades of revolution, war, and transformation to the edge of Victoria's reign. This is not the polished, revisionist history of later centuries but a contemporary account written close enough to events to feel their shock. Here are the fires of the American Revolution, the chaos of successive French wars, the crushing national debt, and the slow, painful reconstruction of monarchy after the abdication crisis. Farr gives us the political intrigue of Pitt and Bute, the growing unrest, the imperial calculations that would shape the modern world. For readers who want history as the Victorians understood it, written with conviction and period assumptions about nation, crown, and providence, this volume offers an invaluable window into how the nineteenth century made sense of its recent past.