A History of Britain, Volume III: The Fate of the Empire 1776–2000

“I read the three volumes of Schama’s A History of Britain quickly…they are beautifully written. There’s a rhythm to them. Schama has mastered that real art of history where you give somebody reading it enough of a sense of detail that they feel the historian knows what they’re doing and that you come out of it knowing more, but without getting bogged down in the detail that you don’t need…It’s a page-turner…He manages to capture, at different points of the book, a real sense of what’s distinctive about British history.” Read more...

The best books on Modern British History

Andrew Hindmoor, Historian