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Modern British History

  • Imprint: Pimlico

  • ISBN: 9781844131044

  • Length: 528  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 363g

  • RRP: £14.99

Modern British History

  • The Essential A-Z Guide

Modern British History is a comprehensive, entertaining survey of the events, people and themes that make us who we are, written by two of the country's leading scholars of the subject. In 200 concise essays, covering topics as diverse as pornography and the poll tax, the Blitz and New Labour, the authors explore the interwoven culture, society, politics and economics of the recent past.

Bombarded by information as never before, we all need to appreciate the extent to which seemingly disparate events connect with other. This Essential A - Z guide offers a consistent line of argument with a refreshing disrespect for old orthodoxy. Read separately, its entries are a mine of useful information; taken together, they build a vivid, compelling and controversial picture of Britain at the start of the twenty-first century.

  • Imprint: Pimlico

  • ISBN: 9781844131044

  • Length: 528  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 363g

  • RRP: £14.99

Reviews

  • Highly entertaining and informative

    Times Literary Supplement

  • 200 snappy and stylish essays on the topics that dominated British life since 1900

    Independent

  • It is enormous fun... This is a "reference book with attitude"... [And] how can you not admire a book which, in a passing mention of Coco Chanel, describes her as "the Nazi-sympathising French couturier"?

    Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

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About the Author

Mark Garnett

Mark Garnett is the co-author of Whatever Happened to the Tories (1997), Keith Joseph: A Life (2001), and Splendid! Splendid! The Authorized Biography of Willie Whitelaw (2002) and Modern British History written with Richard Weight.

Mark Garnett

Richard Weight

Richard Weight is the author of Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940-2000 and co-authored Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide. He studied history at Trinity College, Cambridge, and went on to do a PhD at University College, London. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Boston and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Richard also makes documentaries for radio and television on many aspects of British life.

Richard Weight

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