Foreword to the new edition
1: Peter Salway: Roman Britain (c.55 BC - c. AD 440)
2: John Blair: The Anglo-Saxon Period (c. 440-1066)
3: John Gillingham: The Early Middle Ages (1066-1290)
4: Ralph A. Griffiths: The Later Middle Ages (1290-1485)
5: John Guy: The Tudor Age (1485-1603)
6: John Morrill: The Stuarts (1603-1688)
7: Paul Langford: The Eighteenth Century (1688-1789)
8: Christopher Harvie: Revolution and the Rule of Law
(1789-1851)
9: H. C. G. Matthew: The Liberal Age (1851-1914)
10: Kenneth O. Morgan: The Twentieth Century (1914-2000)
Kenneth O. Morgan: Epilogue (the years since 2000)
Further Reading
Chronology
Genealogies of Royal Lines
Prime Ministers 1721-2008
Index
Kenneth O. Morgan is honorary Fellow of the Queen's and Oriel
Colleges, Oxford. From 1966 to 1989 he was Fellow and Praelector of
Queen's; from 1989 to 1995 he was Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth
University, and also Senior Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Wales, 1993-5. He is the author of many major works on British
history including Wales in British Politics, 1868-1922; The Age of
Lloyd George; Keir Hardie: Radical and Socialist; Rebirth
of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980; Labour in Power, 1945-51; Consensus
and Disunity: the Lloyd George Coalition Government, 1918-1922;
Labour People: Leaders and Lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock; The
People's Peace: British
History, 1945-1990; Modern Wales: Politics, Places and People;
Callaghan: A Life; The Twentieth Century (A Very Short
Intoduction); and Michael Foot: A Life. He was elected a Fellow of
the British Academy in 1983, and became a life peer in 2000.
`Review from previous edition belongs in every school satchel, on
every student's desk, in every library's catalogue... on everyone's
coffee table... wherever readers have a real curiosity to discover,
in words and pictures, the current stage of historical inquiry in
the field of British history'
Peter Clarke, History Today
`Here is a book to intrigue the mind and gladden the eye'
Max Beloff, Art International
`A lively and stimulating overview by a selection of our best
historians, scholarly but very readable'
John Kenyon, Observer
`All ten authors... embody the very qualities Kenneth Morgan hopes
his quite exceptional history will instil in its readers: clarity,
subtlety, enthusiasm and even affection'
TES
`An essential part of the high culture of our times, something
which every educated person will be expected to have read'
Vernon Bogdanor, Encounter
`For those who want a one-volume history of Britain this is ideal
and with the superb illustrations a bargain'
Glasgow Herald
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