The first updated new edition in almost twenty years of this best-selling and beautifully illustrated history of Britain, from Roman times to the 21st century.

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.

• Foreword to the new edition


• 1: Peter Salway: Roman Britain (c.55 BC - c. AD 440)


• 2: John Blair: The Anglo-Saxon Period (c. 440-1066)


• 3: John Gillingham: The Early Middle Ages (1066-1290)


• 4: Ralph A. Griffiths: The Later Middle Ages (1290-1485)


• 5: John Guy: The Tudor Age (1485-1603)


• 6: John Morrill: The Stuarts (1603-1688)


• 7: Paul Langford: The Eighteenth Century (1688-1789)


• 8: Christopher Harvie: Revolution and the Rule of Law (1789-1851)


• 9: H. C. G. Matthew: The Liberal Age (1851-1914)


• 10: Kenneth O. Morgan: The Twentieth Century (1914-2000)


• Epilogue (the years since 2000)


• Further Reading


• Chronology


• Genealogies of Royal Lines


• Prime Ministers 1721-2008


• Index