The Book of British Birthplaces: The Who Was Born Where Guide to the Famous and Infamous (2nd edition)

It is not often we find Reference Reviews quoted on the cover of a book, but so it is in this case. My predecessor found its first edition of 1997 “an impressive work of reference” (RR 1997/449) and I agree. So a full review is probably unnecessary. It suffices to inform librarians unacquainted with the 1st edition (such as myself) that it comprises a list of places in Britain and Northern Ireland with the names of famous people (living or dead) who were born there. At the end there appears a list of these places classified by county, and an...