num_pages: 500
description: Christopher Lee’s seminal history series, which accompanied the award–winning BBC radio series, narrates the rich and gripping story of Britain, from the Roman Invasion in 55 BC to the dawn of the 21st century. In this volume, the author looks at Britain from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 up to the present day. The text covers the century's major political and economic events, as well as the scientific and cultural changes that have influenced the day-to-day lives of British people.
language: English
title: This Sceptred Isle: Twentieth Century: From the Death of Queen Victoria to the Dawn of a New Millennium
titlecomplete: This Sceptred Isle: Twentieth Century: From the Death of Queen Victoria to the Dawn of a New Millennium
characters: Edward VII, Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales, John Maynard Keynes, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Paul Kruger, Mikhail Gorbachev, Harold Wilson, Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin, William II, German Emperor, Clement Attlee, Ian Smith, Tony Blair, Harold Macmillan, Slobodan Milošević, Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, George V of the United Kingdom, Stanley Baldwin, Boris Yeltsin, Benito Mussolini, Leonid Brezhnev, Ramsay MacDonald, George VI of the United Kingdom, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Edward Heath, Neville Chamberlain, Charles III of the United Kingdom, David Lloyd George, Ronald Reagan, Anthony Eden, Woodrow Wilson, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Gamal Abdel Nasser
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 48
places: Britain
series: This Sceptred Isle
publisher: BBC Books