| Description |
1 online resource (521 pages) |
| Series |
Longman Handbooks To History |
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Longman Handbooks To History
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations used in sources; Section One: Political history; Political Chronology; British Monarchs, 1702-2001; Genealogical Charts; The Stuart and Hanoverian lines; The family of Queen Victoria; Lists of Principal Ministers; Prime Ministers; Chancellors of the Exchequer; Secretaries of State for the Northern Department; Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs; Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; Secretaries of State for the Southern Department |
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Secretaries of State for Home AffairsParliamentary Reform; The unreformed House of Commons; The Reform Movement, 1714-1830; The Reform Act of 1832; The Reform Act of 1867 (and Scotland, 1868); The Reform and Redistribution Acts of 1884-85; The electorate; Percentage of all adults (male and female) entitled to vote; Adult males able to vote; Legislation governing parliamentary representation and the conduct of elections, 1828-2001; The unreformed House of Lords; Scottish Parliament; Welsh Assembly; Elections and Party Politics; General elections, 1832-2001; Famous by-elections since 1918 |
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European electionsReferendum results; Conservative Party; Liberal Party (since 1988, Liberal Democrats); Labour Party; Other Parties; Alliance, The; Alliance Party of Northern Ireland; British National Party; British Union of Fascists; Common Wealth; Communist Party of Great Britain; Democratic Left; Democratic Unionist Party; Ecology Party; Green Party; Independent Labour Party; Irish Nationalist Party; Liberal National Party (National Liberal Party after 1948); Liberal Party (Continuing); Liberal Unionist Party; Militant; National Front; New Party (British Union of Fascists after 1932) |
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Official UnionistsPeelites; Plaid Cymru (Welsh Nationalist Party); Referendum Party; Scottish Crofters' Party; Scottish National Party; Scottish Socialist Party; Sinn Fein; Social Democratic and Labour Party (Northern Ireland) (SDLP); Social Democratic Party (SDP); Social and Liberal Democratic Party; Socialist Labour Party; Socialist Workers' Party (SWP); UK Independence Party; Ulster Unionist Party; Union Movement; Welsh Nationalist Party; Workers' Revolutionary Party (WRP); Section Two: Social and religious history; Population; The population of England and Wales, 1695-1791 |
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Population since 1801Comparative population growth; Birth and death rates in England and Wales since 1841; Selected urban populations since 1801; Migration to and from the United Kingdom since 1820; Commonwealth immigrants in the United Kingdom since 1961; Education; Education legislation and principal events; Expenditure on education in the United Kingdom since 1840; Percentage of children in different age groups attending schools in England and Wales since 1901; Social Reform; Factory and industrial legislation; Poor relief, health and social welfare; Housing; Housing developments |
| Summary |
This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended to include a fully-revised bibliography (reflecting the wealth of newly published material in recent years), the new statistics on social and economic history and an expanded glossary of terms. The political chronologies have been revised to include the electoral defeat of John Major and the record of New Labour in office. Designed for t |
| Notes |
Houses built in England and Wales since 1919 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837 -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stevenson, John
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| ISBN |
9781317875246 |
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1317875249 |
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