The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History.(Book review)

Canadian Journal of History;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Islands: Essays in British History, by J.G.A. Pocock...modern England, Ireland, Scotland, the...termed the new British history in 1973. The...conception of British history was rooted in...of England, Ireland, and Scotland...suggesting that British history ...

Reader's Guide to British History. Volume One A-L. Volume Two M-Z.(Book...

Albion;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Reader's Guide to British History. Volume One A...Reader's Guide to British History have the commendable...the entirety of British history. The entries include...s Guide is to British history, and subjects...Scotland, Wales, and Ireland occasionally ...

New British History Programme funds sixteen library projects worth...

M2 Presswire;  November 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ......PRESSWIRE-6 November 2000-UK Government: New British History Programme funds sixteen library projects...funding from the first ever Wolfson British History Programme - part of the DCMS/Wolfson...books and materials relating to British History from the eighteenth century to the...

Library awards will promote better understanding of British history says...

M2 Presswire;  October 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ......will promote better understanding of British history says Arts Minister Tessa Blackstone...promote a better understanding of British history are being made to libraries in England...for five projects and come from a British History Programme funded by the DCMS/Wolfson...

Blacks' place in British history

The Independent - London;  August 2, 1995 ;     237 words ......have been players on the stage of British history for thousands of years. I can't speak...Berbers. Does believing that belittle British history? No, of course it doesn't. The Hamitic...recent roots of our ancestry make British history all the richer. Yours, etc, A. D...

Reader's Guide to British History.

History Review;  March 1, 2004 ;     488 words ......from The History Today Companion to British History (at 840 pages) or The Oxford Companion to British History (at 1050)? But now even these weighty...scholarship' on important issues in British history, around a thousand of them. It looks...

Vote for the past.(FRONTLINE)(School curricula does not offer enough...

History Today;  May 1, 2005 ;     492 words ......to be British and what aspects of British history ought to be celebrated, and what recalled...crash-course in the essentials of British history. Then, in the course of the long months...knowledge of the 'basic events' of British history (things like VE Day, I suspect)--and...

Monday books: Playing with the past; Britannia On Stage - 25 plays from...

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  September 4, 2000 ;     125 words ......McCaughrean's Britannia is a wonderful collection of stories from British history. Now she has turned 25 of her favourites into short plays...the chance to act out some of the most famous events in British history from easy-to-follow scripts which will bring the past to...

Scots know more about British history than rest of UK

The Hindustan Times;  August 18, 2008 ;     279 words ......Aug. 18 -- Scots know more about British history than other people in the rest of the...on the 10 questions, which spanned British history from the time of the first Roman invasion...entitled 50 Things You Should Know About British History. Published by HT Syndication with...

LONDON VOX POP Do you welcome plans to teach all schoolchildren modern...

Evening Standard - London;  January 26, 2007 ;     238 words ......expect all youngsters to acquire a proper sense of modern British history when there is not scope to do this at GCSE. The course of...our own national histories. Milo. NO Which bit of modern British history are youngsters going to study? The invention of concentration...

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN; With two more prostitutes found dead, the Suffolk...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 13, 2006 ;     25 words ...With two more prostitutes found dead, the Suffolk Strangler taunts police as he becomes the most brazen - and chillingly swift - serial killer in British history

M&S launches its new line - British history

The Independent - London;  September 19, 1999 ;     379 words ......They gave us chicken tikka masala. Now they're flogging British history, all wrapped up in trademark green and gold along with...arts. For all one knows it could be Hello!'s version of British history." Better hang on to your receipt.

Horrors! London dungeon's full of bloody British history

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 9, 1986 ;     681 words ...LONDON Do you like your British history dripping with blood, punctuated by relentless moans that...and swinging metal doors. But after a big meal of bloody British history, Pandemonium is little more than a frothy dessert - mere...

REVIEW: The Oxford Companion to British History.(Book Review)

M2 Best Books;  November 11, 2002 ;     367 words ......would agree on what should be included in a Companion to British History . Because of this I think that he has gone for a blanket...some point in the future. Title: The Oxford Companion to British History Author: John Cannon Published by: Oxford University Press...

New Labour, new history.(United Kingdom Labor Party tries to rewrite...

The Economist (US);  November 15, 1997 ;     700+ words ......historians is intent on rewriting post-war British history to come up with a version more congenial...drew on a very particular view of British history to provide it with a radical, reforming...seven historians to rescue modern British history from the Thatcherites. While the ...