\"It (The Longman Handbook of Modern British History) certainly deserves to met an enthusiastic response from....historians and lovers of reference books, since it is everything that Longman claim it to be.\"---London Times Educational Supplement (of the first edition) This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. Updated to include new material on such recent developments as the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, House of Lords reform and developments in the European Union. The political chronologies have been revised to include the electoral defeat of John Major and the record of New Labour in office. Established as the standard reference resource to modern British history - fully comprehensive and yet highly accessible - no other books cover the same ground in this way. This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. Included is a full chronology and detailed political information; a wealth of material on population, education, social structure, social reform, crime, labor and religion; economic statistics covering agriculture, trade, prices and wages, transport and unemployment. There are detailed notes on wars and treaties; a biographical section giving brief notes on key careers; a glossary of essential historical terms; and an extensive bibliography arranged by topic. The fourth edition of The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-2000 has been fully updated to take into account events and changes since the third edition was published in 1996. Chris Cook is former head of the Modern Archives Survey at the British Library of Political and Economic Science. John Stevenson is fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.