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96/254 The Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of British History Helicon, Oxford, 1995, xi + 384 pp., ISBN 1-85986-127-X, 30
Helicon's growing reputation as a publisher of popular history reference works is further consolidated by this latest encyclopaedia. Described as "a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the people, events, and ideas that have shaped England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales from prehistory to the present day", it includes 2,200 A-Z entries contributed by a team of 21 university academics and freelance writers on historical subjects; 21 specially commissioned, signed, page-length, thematic articles (for example The Saxon shore: The end of Roman Britain; The hammer of the Celts: Edward I and Wales; Change and diversity: English Renaissance literature and art; The roots of sectarianism: Ireland under...