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About the Author
Kenneth O. Morgan is honorary Fellow of the Queen's and Oriel Colleges, Oxford. From 1966 to 1989 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's; from 1989 to 1995 he was Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University, and also Senior Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, 1993-5. He is the author of many major works on British history including Wales in British Politics, 1868-1922; The Age of Lloyd George; Keir Hardie: Radical and Socialist; Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980; Labour in Power, 1945-51; Consensus and Disunity: the Lloyd George Coalition Government, 1918-1922; Labour People: Leaders and Lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock; The People's Peace: British History, 1945-1990; Modern Wales: Politics, Places and People; Callaghan: A Life; The Twentieth Century (A Very Short Intoduction); and Michael Foot: A Life. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1983, and became a life peer in 2000.
Reviews
Review from previous edition belongs in every school satchel, on every student's desk, in every library's catalogue... on everyone's coffee table... wherever readers have a real curiosity to discover, in words and pictures, the current stage of historical inquiry in the field of British history * Peter Clarke, History Today *
Here is a book to intrigue the mind and gladden the eye * Max Beloff, Art International *
A lively and stimulating overview by a selection of our best historians, scholarly but very readable * John Kenyon, Observer *
All ten authors... embody the very qualities Kenneth Morgan hopes his quite exceptional history will instil in its readers: clarity, subtlety, enthusiasm and even affection * TES *
An essential part of the high culture of our times, something which every educated person will be expected to have read * Vernon Bogdanor, Encounter *
For those who want a one-volume history of Britain this is ideal and with the superb illustrations a bargain * Glasgow Herald *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199544752
Author Kenneth O. Morgan
Format Paperback
Page Count 704
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1571g
Dimensions(mm) 245mm * 187mm * 32mm