The Great Turning Points of British History (25 page)

Prest, Wilfred,
Albion Ascendant. English History 1660–1815
(Oxford University Press, 1998).

1832 The Reform Bill is passed

Brock, Michael,
The Great Reform Act
(Hutchinson, 1973).

Evans, Eric,
The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain
(3rd edition, Longman, 2001).

Hall, Catherine, ‘The Rule of Difference: Gender, Class and Empire in the Making of the 1832 Reform Act’, in Ida Blom et al. (eds),
Gendered Nations. Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Berg, 2000).

Thompson, E.P.
The Making of the English Working Class
(Penguin, 1968).

1851 The Great Exhibition transforms Britain

Auerbach, Jeffrey,
The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display
(Yale University Press, 1999).

Briggs, Asa,
Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851–67
(1954; Penguin, 1990).

Piggott, J.R.,
Palace of the People: The Crystal Palace at Sydenham, 1854–1936
(Hurst & Co., 2004).

1916 The Somme, and Lloyd George founds his coalition

Addison, Paul,
The Road to 1945
(Pimlico, 1994).

DeGroot, Gerard,
Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War
(Longman, 1996).

Hennessy, Peter,
Never Again
(Penguin, 2006).

Pugh, Martin,
The Making of Modern British Politics 1867–1945
(Blackwell, 2002).

1956 Suez signals the dying days of empire

Butler, David, and Gareth Butler,
Twentieth Century British Political Facts, 1900–2000
(Macmillan, 2000).

Clarke, Peter,
Land of Hope and Glory. Britain, 1900–1990
, (Penguin, 1996).

Halsey, A.H., and Josephine Webb (eds),
Twentieth Century British Social Trends
(Macmillan, 2000).

Reynolds, David,
One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945
(Penguin, 2000).

Thane, Pat,
Cassell’s Companion to Twentieth Century Britain
(Cassell, 2001).

CONTRIBUTORS

 

 

Caroline Barron
is Professor of the History of London at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her most recent book is
London in the Later Middle Ages: Government and People
(Oxford University Press, 2004).

Jeremy Black
is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His vast number of books include
A History of the British Isles
(2nd edition, Palgrave, 2002),
The British Seaborne Empire
(Yale University Press, 2004), and
A Short History of Britain
(Social Affairs Unit, 2007).

Christine Carpenter
is Professor of Medieval English History at the University of Cambridge. Her books include
Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401–1499
(Cambridge University Press, 1992), and
The Armburgh Papers
(Boydell and Brewer, 1998).

David Carpenter
is Professor in Medieval History at King’s College London. He is author of The Minority of Henry III (Methuen, 1990),
The Reign of Henry III
(Hambledon, 1996) and
The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain, 1066–1284
(Penguin, 2004).

Pauline Croft
is Professor of Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is convenor of the Tudor–Stuart seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. She edited, and contributed a chapter to,
Patronage, Culture and Power: The Early Cecils, 1558–1612
(Yale, 2002) and is the author of
King James
(Palgrave, 2003).

Gerard DeGroot
is Professor of Modern History at St Andrews University. His books include
The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade
(Macmillan, 2008).

Sarah Foot
is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Christ Church, Oxford. She is the author of
Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900
(Cambridge University Press, 2006; paperback, 2009), and
Veiled Women
(Ashgate, 2000).

John Guy
is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, specializing in the period 1450–1700. He received the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award and Marsh Prize for his biography
My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
(Harper Perennial). His other publications include
Tudor England
(Oxford University Press, 1990).

John Gillingham
is Emeritus Professor of History at the London School of Economics. His recent books include
Richard I
(Yale, 1999),
The Angevin Empire
(Hodder, 2001) and
Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction
(with Ralph Griffiths; Oxford University Press, 2000).

Ralph Griffiths
is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Swansea University. His books include
The Reign of King Henry VI
(new edition, Sutton, 1998), and
Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction
(with John Gillingham, Oxford University Press, 2000).

Catherine Hall
is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College, London. She is the author of
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867
(University of Chicago Press, 2002) and co-editor of
At Home with the Empire
(with Sonya Rose, Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Nicholas Higham
is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester. His books include
King Arthur: Myth-making and History
(Routledge, 2002),
A Frontier Landscape
(Windgather, 2004) and
(Re-) Reading Bede: The Ecclesiastical History in Context
(Taylor and Francis, 2007).

Rab Houston
is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. His recent books include
A New History of Scotland
(2001) and
Scotland: A Very Short Introduction
(Oxford University Press, 2008).

Edmund King
is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. He is editor of
The Anarchy of King Stephen’s Reign
(Oxford, 1994) and author of
Medieval England, from Hastings to Bosworth
(The History Press, 2009).

Christopher Lee
was the first Quatercentenary Fellow in Contemporary History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is researching the history of ideas at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of the BBC Radio 4 history of Britain,
This Sceptred Isle
, and the forthcoming
History of Britishness
(Constable, 2010).

Peter Mandler
is Reader in Modern British History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is the author of
The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair
(Yale University Press, 2006).

John Morrill
is Professor of British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge. His research interests lie in the political, religious, social and cultural histories of England, Ireland and Scotland in the early modern period.

W. Mark Ormrod
is Professor of History at the University of York. He is the author of
The Reign of Edward III
(revised edition, Tempus, 2000), and co-editor of
The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
(Boydell and Brewer, 2005) and
A Social History of England, 1200–1500
(Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Michael Prestwich
is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Durham. He has written extensively on thirteenth- and fourteenth-century history and his latest book is
Plantagenet England 1225–1360
(Oxford University Press, 2005).

Daniel Szechi
is Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of Manchester. His most recent book is
1715. The Great Jacobite Rebellion
(Yale University Press, 2006).

Pat Thane
is Professor of Contemporary British History, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary British History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Her books include
The Foundations of the Welfare State
(Longman, 1996).

Michael Wood
is a highly respected author and TV presenter and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has over eighty documentary films to his name, most recently the critically acclaimed
The Story of India
.

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