Product Description: This browsable dictionary gives a detailed history of the kings and queens of Britain, ranging from mythical and early pre-conquest rulers to the present House of Windsor. Covering English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish Monarchs, the entries are ordered in sections, by regions for pre-1066 monarchs, and then by royal lines...read more

Product Description: When was the first motorway opened? How did the British acquire Hong Kong? What was the book of sports? What prompted the Cat and Mouse Act? How long did the Hundred Years War last? Which queen was "nothing so fair as reported?" Drawing on the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to British History, A Dictionary of British History, published in the very popular OPR series first in 2001 and now reissued for 2003, is a handy and invaluable reference work essential for anyone with an interest in British history and in need for a compact reference source covering 2,000 years of people, events, and places, and political, economic, local, domestic, military, and social change...read more

Four thousand alphabetical, cross-referenced essays and entries offer a wealth of information on British history from Roman times to John Major

Product Description: This is a lively and readable reinterpretation of Georgian political life by a leading historian of the eighteenth century. Cannon uses Samuel Johnson's remarkable career as a point of entry into the period, exploring such major contemporary issues as education, the poor, capital punishment, the colonies, and Toryism...read more

Product Description: Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface lurked substantial popular discontent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides information on where to stay and eat, what to do and see, combined with comments and advice on the city and its attractions