In the last decades of the thirteenth century the British Isles appeared to be on the point of
unified rule, dominated by the lordship, law and language of the English. However by 1400 …

The history of the British Isles is the story of four peoples linked together by a process of
state building that was as much about far-sighted planning and vision as coincidence …

All too often British history means English history and the histories of Wales, Scotland, and
Ireland are left to scholars of the 'Celtic Fringe'. In this clear and authoritative introduction to …

The three volumes of A History of the Peoples of the British Isles weave together the
histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and their peoples. The authors trace the …

Volume III deals with the'long twentieth century'. Its main themes are:* the contraction of
British industrial power and the shift to a service-based economy* the decline of Victorianism …

Since the publication of Robin Frame's account of The Political Development of the British
Isles, the 'British history'project to move away from a compartmentalised, often …

The future of the United Kingdom is an increasingly vexed question. This book traces the
roots of the issue to the middle ages, when English power and control came to extend to the …

Hugh Kearney's classic account of the history of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the
present is distinguished by its treatment of English history as part of a wider'history of four …

The purpose of this book is to tell the story (or rather, stories) of the peoples of the British
Isles in the first two centuries of the modern period. It is a great story, full of drama and …

This volume extends the'British Isles' approach pioneered by Robin Frame and Rees Davies
to the later middle ages. Through examination of issues such as frontier formation, colonial …