Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - History series

This 1789 work is an edited compilation of official papers, journals and illustrations relevant to the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia and the founding of Port Jackson on Sydney Cove, and of the penal colony of Norfolk Island, illustrating the birth of one of the world's great cities.

The campaign against the French in the Caribbean was notable for the large numbers on both sides who succumbed to yellow fever. In this 1796 eyewitness account, Cooper Willyams describes the actions to secure Martinique, St Lucia, and Guadeloupe, and the subsequent recapture of the latter by the French.

Published in 1840, this two-volume original-language compendium of medieval law remains a standard source for scholars. Volume 2 contains ecclesiastical law from the seventh to the tenth centuries, beginning with the eighth Archbishop of Canterbury, Theodore of Tarsus, an early reformer and uniter of the divided and complex Anglo-Saxon church.