A Handbook of Dates for Students of British History New Edition

Although corrected at times, partially updated, and reprinted at regular intervals, this Handbook has not, until now, been subjected to a thorough overhaul since it was first published in 1945. But “the urgent need to revise some tables as we pass into a new millennium now presents an opportunity not only to review its contents yet again, but also to reflect some changes in the study of English history.… There has, however, been no attempt at such radical revision or enlargement of scope that it would turn Cheney’s original work into something very different” (Preface). The Handbook was, and is,...