History of United Kingdom

What's the #1 experience in the United Kingdom? The British Museum? Giant's Causeway? Edinburgh Castle? Sailing the Isles of Scilly? Hull Pier Toilets? For the first time, the experts at Lonely Planet have ranked the top 500 unmissable experiences and hidden gems across Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands – to create the ultimate UK travel hitlist.

This encyclopedia presents important research on the United Kingdom.

A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colonial past. Empireland boldly and lucidly makes the case that in order to understand America, we must first understand British imperialism.

In the twentieth century England lost an empire, built a welfare state, and began to accept the idea of being part of Europe. Abroad her relative power declined; at home life became more tolerable for the unfortunate and more secure for the majority of the people. This book surveys these two great currents of change and examines their political and economic implications.