- •20 Food and drink 184
- •21 Sport and competition 191
- •23 Holidays and special 208 occasions
- •Introduction
- •10 I Country and people
- •12 I Country and people
- •14 I Country and People
- •2 History
- •16 2 History
- •18 2 History
- •It was in this period that Parliament began its gradual evolution into the democratic body which it is today. The word 'parliament',
- •20 2 History
- •22 2 History
- •24 2 History
- •26 2 History
- •28 2 History
- •30 2 History
- •32 3 Geography Climate
- •It was in Britain that the word 'smog' was first used (to describe a
- •36 3 Geography
- •38 3 Geography
- •40 3 Geography
- •Part of Snowdonia National Park
- •4 Identity
- •44 4 Identity
- •IrroubleatLllangybi
- •46 4 Identity
- •48 4 Identity
- •50 4 Identity
- •52 4 Identity
- •54. 4 Identity
- •5 Attitudes
- •58 5 Attitudes
- •60 5 Attitudes
- •62 5 Attitudes
- •64 5 Attitudes
- •66 5 Attitudes
- •In the history of British comedy,
- •6 Political life
- •68 6 Political life
- •70 6 Political life
- •72 6 Political life
- •74 6 Political life
- •6 Political life
- •78 7 The monarchy
- •The reality
- •84 8 The government
- •86 8 The government
- •88 8 The government
- •In comparison with the people of
- •9 Parliament
- •92 9 Parliament
- •94 9 Parliament
- •96 9 Parliament
- •100 10 Elections
- •102 10 Elections
- •104 10 Elections
- •I've messed up my life
- •Serb shelling halts un airlift
- •2 January is also a public holiday in
- •Identity 42—55
- •Illustrations by:
Illustrations by:
Bret Breckon pages 10,13
Matthew Lawrence page 110
Alan Nanson all chapter openers
Oxford University Press cartographic department pages 9, 31, 34, 86, 87,113, 209
Oxford University Press technical graphics department pages 32, 33,46, 89,91, 104, 108, 109, 121, 132, 133, 137, 143, 145, 146, 152, 153, 158, 160, 171,180, 181, 195, 199, 202
Murray Zanoni pages 174, 176
Studio photography by:
Haddon Davies pages 118, 134, 155, 211
The publisher would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs and other copyright material:
Action Images page 199; AKG London page 21 (Henry VIII);
Allsport Photo Library page 196 (R Cheyne); Aquarius Photo Library page 160; The Automobile Association (for use of their logo) page 162; BBC Photo Library pages 1,0, 103, (old swingometer), 107 (Dixon of Dock Green); Barclays Bank (for use of their logo) page 147; The Bridgeman Art Library/John Noot Galleries, Broadway page 23; Bryant Homes page 17 5; Collections Photo Library pages 15 (R Hallman), 37 (Land's End: P Watts), 138 (A Gordon), 209 (rock shop: A Le Garsmeur); Colorsport page 194; The Conservative Party (for use of their logo) page 73;
Lupe Cunha page 172; Dominic Pictures page 213 (C Ashmore);
The Environmental Picture Library page 197 (A Testa);
Eye Ubiquitous page 37 (farmland: T Page); Garden News page 192 (T Sandall); Sally and Richard Greenhill Photo Library pages 182, 214; Sue Hallet page 202; House of Commons Press Office page 97 (Black Rod); Hulton Deutch Library page 27; Images/Landscape Only Photo Library pages 16, 40; The Independant page 129 (R Perry); The Kobal Collection page 17; The Labour Party (for use of their logo) page 73; The Liberal Democrats (for use of then-logo) page 73; Life File pages 61 (Polesden Lacey: A Ward), 80 (I Richards), 156 (J Hoare); Lloyds Bank (for use of their logo) page 147; Lord Snooty, © DC Thompson and Co Ltd 1989 page 59; Magnum Photo Library pages 115 (C Steele-Perkins), 119 (Free Deny: L Freed), 131 (P Marlow), 187 (M Parr); Mary Evans Picture Library pages 10,11, 21 (Elizabeth I); Midland Bank (for use of their logo) page 147; NatWest Bank (for use of their logo) page 147; Neal's Yard Remedies page 173; Network Photo Library pages 61 (allotments: H Sykes), 111 (M Abrahams), 119 (Freedom Fighters mural; G Mendel), 123 (both pies by H Sykes), 147 (B Lewis), 149 (Barry Lewis), 163 (B Lewis), 164 (traffic cones: H Sykes), (beach:
P Jordan); The Performing Arts Library page 204 (C Barda);
Photofusion pages 144 (J Martin), 189; Popperfoto pages 47 (DJoyner), 66, 79, 124; The Press Association pages 53, 74, 83, 95;
Punch Publications Ltd page 190; RAC (for the use of their logo) page 162; RSPCA Photo Library page 64 (T Sambrook); The Retrograph Archive page 210; Rex Features pages 56, 69, 78 (D Hartley), 90, 97 (state opening of Parliament), 101 (J Bradley), 103 (new swingometer: P Brooker), 188, 206 (N Jorgensen); The Samaritans page 170; Scope Features page 107 (The Bill); Skyscan Balloon Photography page 178; Frank Spooner Pictures pages 33 (Gamma, T Bitchburn), 65 (K Bernstein/ESP), 91 (Gamma:
K Bernstein), 114 (Gamma); The Still Moving Picture Company F^gG 43; The Sun Newspaper/News International page 118; John Walmsley Photo Library pages 38, 44, 164 (traffic warden); Warwick University page 139.
We would also like to thank Gertrude Erbach at the reference library, News International for her help in obtaining illustrative material and Derek Heater, founder Chairman of the Politics Association, for his advice on the chapters concerning history and politics.