The Routledge Atlas of British History

by Martin Gilbert

The evolving story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas, which covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales – and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Britain’s overseas empire. This new edition Sir Martin Gilbert is Winston Churchill’s official biographer, and one of Britain’s leading historians, having written eighty-two books in total. He is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and a Distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College, Michigan. He has also most recently served on the committee of the Iraq Inquiry set up by the British Government. For more information, please visit www.martingilbert.com.

Genres: History

212 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

The official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading historian on the Twentieth Century, Sir Martin Gilbert was a scholar and an historian who, though his 88 books, has shown there is such a thing as “true history”

Born in London in 1936, Martin Gilbert was educated at Highgate School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours. He was a Research Scholar at St Anthony's College, and became a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1962, and an Honorary Fellow in 1994. After working as a researcher for Randolph Churchill, Gilbert was chosen to take over the writing of the Churchill biography upon Randolph's death in 1968, writing six of the eight volumes of biography and editing twelve volumes of documents. In addition, Gilbert has written pioneering and classic works on the First and Second World Wars, the Twentieth Century, the Holocaust, and Jewish history.
Gilbert drove every aspect of his books, from finding archives to corresponding with eyewitnesses and participants that gave his work veracity and meaning, to finding and choosing illustrations, drawing maps that mention each place in the text, and compiling the indexes. He travelled widely lecturing and researching, advised political figures and filmmakers, and gave a voice and a name “to those who fought and those who fell.”

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Reviews

[Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very competent, serviceable book. I used it as a supplement to other history books that I have been reading recently. I was surprised to find that the most interesting maps were not of invasions or migrations, but rather the recent maps of where the victims of the 7/7 bombings came from, or what countries various fresh produce comes from. The maps about current trade and immigration are interesting as well. This is the fourth edition, and I could tell when previous editions were published by the number of maps ending in the years 1992, 2002, 2005. A good book to have on the shelf, although a new one comes out every four or five years. A fifth edition was published two months ago, right after I bought this copy.

[Mckinley · Rating 4 out of 5]

helpful visuals to understand history in England and English colonization.
Just looked at 5th ed. and goes through 2012 hosting of Olympic games.