Professor John Cannon held the chair of Modern History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne until 1992. He has edited several titles, including The Letters of Junius, The Oxford Companion to British History, and The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians, which was awarded a Library Association prize for reference works. His other publications include The Fox-North Coalition, Parliamentary Reform, Aristocratic Century, The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy, and Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England.

Review from previous edition the book is packed with interest to the final page

• PREFACE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; NOTE TO THE READER; A-Z ENTRIES; CHRONOLOGY; WEB LINKS

Professor John Cannon held the chair of Modern History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne until 1992. He has edited several titles, including The Letters of Junius, The Oxford Companion to British History, and The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians, which was awarded a Library Association prize for reference works. His other publications include The Fox-North Coalition, Parliamentary Reform, Aristocratic Century, The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy, and Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England.

Review from previous edition the book is packed with interest to the final page

• PREFACE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; NOTE TO THE READER; A-Z ENTRIES; CHRONOLOGY; WEB LINKS