The English Heritage, Third Edition, is a compact yet complete introduction to British history in two volumes. This comprehensive text reflects the authors' belief that a concise and accessible analysis best serves both the student and instructor. With new material on Tudor, Elizabethan, and Stuart England, revisions throughout reflect the latest scholarship, giving more attention to women and social history. Volume One covers the earliest Britons to 1714, Volume Two covers 1689 to the Present.
2nd edition (1988). Very obviously a textbook written in 1978 and lightly revised a decade later. Heavy focus on political/diplomatic - almost exclusively until the Victorian period, and very little social/cultural even after that.