1. Highly recommended, especially for ‘AS’ and ‘A2’ level students, are the Modern History Review and 20th Century History Review, each published four times during the academic year by Philip Allan, Market Place, Deddington, Oxfordshire. Some of the most useful articles are mentioned under the appropriate Chapter headings.
2. Statistics of general election results, population, wages and prices, and trade union membership, unless otherwise stated, are taken from Chris Cook and John Stevenson, Handbook of Modern British History 1714–1987 (Longman, 1988).
3. Bernstein, G. L., The Myth of Decline. The Rise of Britain Since 1945 (Pimlico, 2004).
4. Black, J., Modern British History since 1900 (Macmillan, 2000).
5. Black, J. & Macraild, D.M., Nineteenth Century Britain (Palgrave, 2003).