BOOK TRANSCRIPTIONS

 

 

LORD LANSDOWNE, A BIOGRAPHY BY LORD NEWTON,

Govenor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, War Minister, Foreign Secretary, Conservative Leader in the Lords. First published in 1929.
Annotated
with 625 footnotes by Craig Thornber, 2025

 

RETROSPECTION, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LORD NEWTON

Diplomat, M.P., In the House of Lords, Minister responsible for negotiating the
return of prisoners of war in the Great War . First published in 1941
Annotated
with 553 footnotes Craig Thornber, 2016

 

BEAMONT'S HISTORY OF LYME

By William Beamont, a Warrington historian
Transcribed
with additional footnotes by Craig Thornber, 2013

 

THE HOUSE OF LYME

By Lady Newton.  History of the Legh family and their house.  First published in 1917
Transcribed
with additional footnotes by Craig Thornber, 2022

 

NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY INTO EGYPT 1817

Thomas Legh's account of his journey up the Nile to be one of the first Europeans to reach Sudan
Transcribed
with an index and glossary added by Craig Thornber, 2019

 

RECOLLECTIONS OF PAST LIFE, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

By Sir Henry Holland physician to six Victorian Prime Ministers, Socialite and Traveller. 1872.
Transcribed
and annotated with 617 footnotes by Craig Thornber, 2022

 

WORKS BY DANIEL DEFOE

Journal of the Plague Year. Transcribed in the year of the Plague 2020 

 

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

 

Part 1: Eastern Counties: Annotated by Craig Thornber, 2020

Part 2: The Sea Coasts of Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, and of Part of Surrey.  Annotated by Craig Thornber, 2022.

Parts 3 and 4: South Coast Hampshire to Devon, then Somerset, Gloucester, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.   Annotated by Craig Thornber, 2022

Part 5: London. A Description of the City of London, the City of Westminster and the Borough of Southwark.  Annotated by Craig Thornber, 2022

 

PRIMITIVE PHYSICK

John Wesley's collection of folk medicine, first published in 1761
Transcribed from the 4th Edition published in 1847, by Craig Thornber, 2004


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