All the regiments in this book have extensive historiographies which include well-researched regimental histories. The following provide readable accounts of the development of the regimental system within the British Army.
Ascoli, David, A Companion to the British Army 1660–1983, London, 1983
Barnett, Correlli, Britain and her Army 1509–1970, London, 1970
Brereton, J. M., The British Army: A Social History of the British Army from 1661 to the Present Day, London, 1986
Carver, Michael, Seven Ages of the British Army, London, 1986
Chandler, David, and Beckett, Ian, eds., The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army, Oxford, 1994
David, Saul, All the King’s Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo, London, 2013
Fortescue, Sir John, A History of the British Army, 13 vols, Macmillan, London, 1899–1930
Mallinson, Allan, The Making of the British Army: From the English Civil War to the War on Terror, London, 2009
Messenger, Charles, For Love of Regiment: A History of British Infantry, 2 vols, Barnsley, 1993–1994
Swinson, Arthur, ed., A Register of the Regiments and Corps of the British Army: The Ancestry of the Regiments and Corps of the Regular Establishment of the Army, London, 1972