Description
Whitaker's Concise 2021 is the definitive reference guide to the UK. The concise edition is a UK-centric gold-mine of information with enormous breadth of coverage. At a fraction of the price of the standard edition, the reader with an interest in UK facts and figures is really getting value for money.
The concise edition contains a comprehensive explanation of every aspect of national and local government infrastructure in the UK, astronomical and tidal data for 2021, guides to UK law, education and taxation, overviews of the water, energy and transport industries, essential calendar information, chapters on royalty and peerage, defence, complete results for each constituency from the last UK General Election and an up-to-date list of MPs, government departments and public bodies - quite simply, the UK in one volume!
'If you want to know it... it's here' John Humphrys
The world-famous, number one concise almanack resource for facts, figures and statistics relating to the UK and the world returns!
About the Author
Joseph Whitaker published the first edition of his Almanack on 23rd December 1868. Volume one was 370 pages long well received. Published by Whitaker's & Sons until 1997, it was then acquired by The Stationery Office until 2003, and then A & C Black, which later became a subsidiary of Bloomsbury Publishing in 2011. Rebellion Publishing Ltd. acquired Whitaker's in 2020.
Reviews
"Whitaker's is the place for things that everybody needs but nobody publishes - nobody else." -- Matthew Parris
"Settler of argument, provider of spurious historical parallels, goad to the weary hack's mind. I become so engrossed I forget what I was trying to look up in the first place." -- Libby Purves
"A source of delight as well as a gold-mine of information." -- Jonathan Dimbleby
Book Information
ISBN 9781781089798
Author Whitaker's Almanack
Format Paperback
Page Count 693
Imprint Rebellion Publishing Ltd.
Publisher Rebellion Publishing Ltd.
Weight(grams) 705g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 148mm * 30mm
The concise edition contains a comprehensive explanation of every aspect of national and local government infrastructure in the UK, astronomical and tidal data for 2021, guides to UK law, education and taxation, overviews of the water, energy and transport industries, essential calendar information, chapters on royalty and peerage, defence, complete results for each constituency from the last UK General Election and an up-to-date list of MPs, government departments and public bodies - quite simply, the UK in one volume!
'If you want to know it... it's here' John Humphrys
The world-famous, number one concise almanack resource for facts, figures and statistics relating to the UK and the world returns!
About the Author
Joseph Whitaker published the first edition of his Almanack on 23rd December 1868. Volume one was 370 pages long well received. Published by Whitaker's & Sons until 1997, it was then acquired by The Stationery Office until 2003, and then A & C Black, which later became a subsidiary of Bloomsbury Publishing in 2011. Rebellion Publishing Ltd. acquired Whitaker's in 2020.
Reviews
"Whitaker's is the place for things that everybody needs but nobody publishes - nobody else." -- Matthew Parris
"Settler of argument, provider of spurious historical parallels, goad to the weary hack's mind. I become so engrossed I forget what I was trying to look up in the first place." -- Libby Purves
"A source of delight as well as a gold-mine of information." -- Jonathan Dimbleby
Book Information
ISBN 9781781089798
Author Whitaker's Almanack
Format Paperback
Page Count 693
Imprint Rebellion Publishing Ltd.
Publisher Rebellion Publishing Ltd.
Weight(grams) 705g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 148mm * 30mm
