A History of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr

Advantages: Excellent, clear maps; avoids pro-English bias
Disadvantages: Some rather odd colourschemes; doesn't cover anything in the last decade

...to interpret what little social and economic data exists from pre-modern times. Having said that, what is there is interesting, and there are some pages dealing with issues that are often overlooked: for example, wine imports in the Middle Ages. One major strength of this book is that it is a history of *Britain*, not one of England. There is detailed consideration given to the events that led to the unification of Scotland, for example, and to the Vikings' activities in the Irish Sea. Because of the English bias of many otherwise excellent history books and programmes (Simon Schama's "A History of Britain" comes to mind), these happenings are not at all well known by the populace at large, and it is very pleasing to see them covered so comprehensively here. A book like this, of course, stands or falls on the quality of the maps and charts... Read review

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...This book is brilliant if you want a excellent and comprehensive book on an introduction to a History of modern computing. I first used this book to complete a project on the world wide web and the Internet and I found it to be very detailed and it also has great pictures to accompany the text that is written in this book. This book can be used as a textbook, for courses like GCSE or A Level Information technology or computer studies or GNVQ in health and social care. (I personally used it for both, I have also used this book for the HND course that I am presently on). I think this book could also be used for people/ students who want a more detailed introduction into A history of modern computing Synopsis of this book- A history of modern computing This book covers everything that you need to know about the history of modern... Read review

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Advantages: history that is accessible and entertaining, well presented
Disadvantages: none except for my poor make up thanks to the woad incident

..., so the book covers a 2 school years when used as part of a curriculum), but being budget minded, we used the free online edition over at the Baldwin Project, alternated with recordings of the chapters offered for free by the Librivox website. Nothing quite substitutes for a real paper book though, so the price down to reasonable levels, and nothing else pressing for funds, we bought this edition. So what it is, you ask? Well, it is a history book of sorts. I say of sorts, for it is more a collection of myths, fables, and history woven together. It pretty much is a group of stories to introduce children to British history. From King Neptune and Albion, to Brutus, to the Romans and beyond all the way to Queen Victoria, what we have here is an unashamed collection of tales told in chronological order that paints a history of Britain... Read review

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