Analysing views of different historians, this text examines all the major themes, personalities and issues of this important period in a clear, comprehensive form.

This edition, extended to cover the period up to 1914, provides the ultimate introduction to British history between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the ...

This pamphlet guides the reader through one of the most complex periods of European history, when religion interacted with rebellion and dynastic rivalry in a series of ...