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THE LONGMAN HANDBOOK OF

MODERN BRITISH HISTORY 17142001

Also by Chris Cook and John Stevenson

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THE LONGMAN HANDBOOK OF

MODERN BRITISH HISTORY 17142001

Fourth Edition

Chris Cook

John Stevenson

First published 1983 by Pearson Education Limited

Second edition 1988

Third edition 1996

Fourth edition 2001

Published 2014 by Routledge

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Chris Cook and John Stevenson 1983, 1988, 1996, 2001

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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-42394-7 (pbk)

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Typeset by 35 in 10/12 ITC New Baskerville

CONTENTS

This handbook has attempted to provide a convenient and accessible companion for both teachers and students of British history from 1714 to the general election of June 2001. It is a much condensed work, bringing together a wealth of chronological, statistical and tabular information which is not to be found elsewhere within the confines of a single volume. The book covers not only political and diplomatic events but also the broader fields of social and economic history. It has been designed as a handbook for use by teachers as well as by sixth-formers and undergraduates. No book of this type can be entirely comprehensive. Rather, we have included those facts, figures and statistics that we believe are most needed for courses in later modern British history.

Chris Cook
John Stevenson
June 2001

The publishers would like to thank the following for granting permission to reproduce copyright material: Routledge for the table The population of England and Wales, 16951791 ().

Mitchell and Deane, Abstract	B. R. Mitchell and P. Deane, Abstract of British Historical Statistis (Cambridge University Press, 1962)
Mitchell and Jones,Second Abstract	B. R. Mitchell and H. G. Jones, Second Abstract of British Historical Statistics (Cambridge University Press, 1971)
Key Data, 1992/93	Central Statistical Office, Key Data, 1992/93 (London, HMSO, 1993)
Annual Abstract + date	Annual Abstract of Statistics (London, HMSO, date published)
Halsey (ed.), Trends	A. H. Halsey (ed.), Trends in British Society since 1900 (London, Macmillan, 1972)
Britain, 1994	Britain, 1994: An Official Handbook (London, HMSO, 1994)

Note: (i) In order to reflect the more personal character of politics and the less organized nature of parties in the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, governments up to 1868 are given the name of their principal minister or ministers. After 1868 governments are designated by their party label, (ii) In the eighteenth century leaders of administrations usually held the post of First Lord of the Treasury or one of the secretaryships of state, no formal office of Prime Minister existing. From the early nineteenth century this term came into more common usage and has been adopted from the 1820s for the description of leaders of administrations.

1714

May Schism Act passed. No person allowed to keep a school unless a member of the Anglican Church.

July Henry St John (Bolingbroke) secures dismissal of the Earl of Oxford and begins attempt to pack administration with Jacobite sympathizers. Severe illness of Queen Anne forces calling of Privy Council. Pro-Hanoverian Duke of Shrewsbury appointed Lord Treasurer in place of Oxford (30th).

Aug. Death of Queen Anne (1st); George I proclaimed King in London and leading cities. Bolingbroke dismissed from office.

Sept. George I arrives in England (18th). Whig administration formed under Lord Stanhope. Principal figures: Lord Stanhope (Secretary of State); Lord Halifax (First Lord of the Treasury); Lord Townshend (Secretary of State); Earl of Nottingham (Lord President of the Council); Lord Sunderland (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland).

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