An A-Z Guide to its Places, History, and Culture
For tourists, visitors, business people and curious inhabitants alike, this guide covers all the essential background information on Britain and Northern Ireland that ordinary guidebooks cannot include. Ideal as a traveller's reference companion, for quick information on Britain, or simply for browsing.
The A-Z entries are supplemented by over a dozen feature essays on subjects ranging from the impact of the Normans to the history of the pub, chronologies highlighting social change, glossaries of special terms, tables of organisations and sites, all interspersed with 200 memorable quotes illuminating 2000 years of British life.
Over 2000 A-Z entries cover:
- tourist destinations: castles, country houses, World Heritage sites, natural features, national monuments and more
- historical events, movements, battles and revolts
- movers and shakers in British history
- cultural and social traditions
- all counties and unitary authorities in the UK, plus all major towns and cities.
