Part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times, Who's Who in Early Hanoverian Britain spans the period from the death of Queen Anne in 1714 to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. These 75 years witnessed two Jacobite risings, the evolution of cabinet government, major additions to the British Empire despite the loss of the American colonies, and at home the stirrings of radical reform - it was the age of The Enlightenment. This volume contains over 190 short biographies of eminent personalities: the range is extensive, embracing royalty, politicians, philosophers, poets, artists, writers and inventors. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age and evokes what was distinctive and interesting about their personality and achievement. The biographies are arranged in a broadly chronological rather than alphabetical sequence so that the reader may easily browse from one contemporary to the next. The index, with its many cross-references, reveals further linkages between contemporaries. Each volume is a portrait of an age, presenting history in a biographical form which complements the conventional approach.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Whos Who in British History .

There are 464 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 1992 by Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd .

Geoffrey Treasure, general editor of the Who's Who in British History series was Senior Master at Harrow School. Besides his two volumes for this series, he has written about French and European history, notably Mazarin (Routledge, 1955) and Louis XIV (Longmans, 2001). He has contributed articles to the Encyclopaedia Britannica on Europe and the Enlightenment and to the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).