Monumenta Historica Britannica (MHB); or, Materials for the History of Britain, From the Earliest Period, is an incomplete work by Henry Petrie, the Keeper of the Records of the Tower of London,[1] assisted by John Sharpe.
Only the first volume covering material prior to the Norman Conquest was printed in 1848 by G. E. Eyre & W. Spottiswoode for Her Majesty.OCLC 4063392 It was reprinted by Gregg Publishing in March 1971 (ISBN 0576199958).
Petrie drafted the proposal to include all the references to Britain in the Greek and Roman writers, as well as general histories and annals.
[3] The first volume was posthumously published by Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, Petrie's successor.
This article about a non-fiction book on history of the United Kingdom or its predecessor states is a stub.