This guide to Britain's past covers not only the "signpost" dates - reigns, battles, treatises, voyages of discovery, and social movements - but also landmarks in the worlds of arts and sciences, scholarship, literature and drama, music, popular entertainment and fashion. In addition to the chronology, there is a series of some 50 lists, covering everything from monarchs (English and Scottish) and prime ministers to Nobel prizewinners and social and economic statistics.