The Pimlico Chronolgy Of British History : Updated Edition (Updated ed)

This guide to 5000 years of British history classifies events under nine headings: general and political; fine arts and architecture; literature and scholarship; music and drama; recreation and fashion; religion and education; science and invention; voyages of exploration; and events elsewhere.

The maps cover periods, movements and events from Roman and Dark Age Britain through to World War II.

It includes statistics on population, births and deaths, speed of communication, railway mileage, food prices and trade union membership.

Fifty lists give information from the Roman Governors of Britain to the Prime Ministers of New Zealand, and from the First Lords of the Admiralty to the Nobel prizewinners.