ABSTRACT
This comprehensive A-Z guide to the history of Britain and its peoples will be indispensable reading for general readers and students. It contains some 1400 pages packed full of fascinating detail on everything from Hadrian's Wall to the Black Death to Tony Blair. The Companion to British History was assembled over more than thirty years and was first published in 1996 by Longcross Press to great acclaim. The author has comprehensively updated it for the paperback edition.
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Appendix A
English Regnal Years Regnal years were used for dating documents and also parliamentary sessions until 1963 when A.D. dating came into use for statutes. The table shows the number, beginning and end of the first year of a reign, from which, save as shown, the other years including the penultimate can be deduced. It also shows the number and dates of the last year, which ends, unless otherwise
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APPENDIX C GENEALOGIES AND DIAGRAMS Interest in the English Crown 1035-66
(Kings of the English in CAPITALS)
