Callum G. Brown is professor of religious and cultural history at the University of Dundee. He is the author of eight books including Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain (2006), Postmodernism for Historians (2004) and The Death of Christian Britain (2001).W. Hamish Fraser was professor of modern history at the University of Strathclyde. His publications include A History of British Trade Unionism 1700-1998 (1999) and The Coming of the Mass Market (1981), and he has also edited volumes on the histories of Glasgow and Aberdeen.

• Preface. Part 1: Introduction. Ch 1 Approaches to Britain’s history. Part 2: An Uncertain Stability, 1707-1779. Ch 2. The political system. Ch 3. Power and society in rural Britain. Ch 4. Urban Life. Ch 5. The Enlightenment and Gender. Ch 6. The British abroad. Part 3: The Industrialising Nation 1780-1829. Ch 7. The Industrial Revolution. Ch 8. The social revolution. Ch 9. Running the state. Ch 10. Britain at war. Ch. 11. Challenges to the political system. Part 4. The Dominant Nation 1830-1879. Ch. 12. The making of an urban society. Ch 13. The Victorian economy. Ch 14. Class, gender and religion. Ch 15. Responses to industrial change. Ch 16. Politics in transition. Ch 17. The growth of the state. Ch 18. Democratic pressures. Part 5: The Imperial Heyday 1880 - 1918. Ch 19. Britain and its Empire. Ch 20. The late-Victorian and war economy. Ch 21. Intellectual ferment. Ch 22. People, society and culture. Ch 23. Political Change 1880-1901. Ch 24. Edwardian politics 1901-1914. Ch 25. The British road to war. Ch 26. The First World War. Part 6: War and the End of Empire 1919-1963. Ch 27. The economy in peace and war. Ch 28. Political change 1919-1939. Ch 29. The Second World War. Ch 30. People, society and culture.

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