The Oxford Companion to British History (revised edition)

The name of Oxford is such a guarantee of quality in reference books that it enjoys the protection of a trade mark, and the latest example to bear it does not disappoint. Many libraries will have purchased the hardback edition of 1997, but the Editor tells us that it was not reviewed in these columns. The revised edition presents 4,000 entries on prominent people, places, events, movements and general topics in British history, by 100 reputable historians, and runs to over 1,000,000 words. Of these entries, about 50 are said to be new, and about 900 revised, mainly, it appears,...