OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BRITAIN Updated Edition - MORG

This beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of Britain and
its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman
legions to the present day. Encompassing political, social,
economic, and cultural developments throughout the British Isles,
the dramatic narrative is taken up in turn by ten leading
historians who offer the fruits of the best modern scholarship to
the general reader in an authoritative form, illuminating their
text with carefully chosen pictures and maps. A vivid, sometimes
surprising picture emerges of a continuous turmoil of change in
every period, and the wider social context of political and
economic tension is made clear. But consensus, no less than
conflict, is a part of the story: in focusing on elements of
continuity down the centuries, the authors bring out that special
awareness of identity which has been such a distinctive feature of
British society. By relating both these factors in the British
experience, and by exploring the many ways in which Britain has
shaped and been shaped by contact with Europe and the wider world,
this landmark work brings the reader face to face with the past,
and the foundations of modern British society. The new edition, the
first for almost twenty years, brings the story into the
twenty-first century, covering the changes to British society and
culture during the Blair years and the invasion of Iraq and its
aftermath.