Book description
Bestseller! Now with extended coverage of modern British history
Britain's past brought right up to date
This book is a riotous, irreverent account of the people and events
that have shaped Britain. Always get those kings and queens confused?
Never sure what happened when? You need this book. Inside you'll find
rip-roaring stories of power-mad kings, executions, invasions, high
treason, global empire-building, and forbidden love - not bad for a
nation of stiff upper lips.
Praise for British History For Dummies
"It puts the history of Britain into the sort of perspective
I've always hoped for."
-Terry Jones, Monty Python star and
co-author of Who Murdered Chaucer?
"Honestly-you can't beat British History For
Dummies."
-Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe novels
Discover how to
- Famous and infamous Britons
- Key royal, military, and cultural eras
- Power in Britain: Who lost it, who took it
- The rise and fall of Britain's global empire
- History as it connects to Britain today
Sean Lang studied history at Oxford and has been
teaching it to school, college, and university students for the past
twenty years. He has written textbooks on nineteenth and twentieth
century history, and is co-editor of
Modern History Review.
Sean regularly reviews textbooks for the
Times Educational
Supplement and has written on history teaching for the Council of
Europe. He is a Research Fellow in History at Anglia Ruskin University
and Honorary Secretary of the Historical Association, and is currently
undertaking research on women in nineteenth-century British India.
