Includes chronologies, descriptions of significant people and events, and bibliographies on a variety of topics.

Short entries on significant, people, events, places, and ideas.

For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Reader'sGuide to British Historywebsite. The Reader'sGuide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.