Bücher der Reihe Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks

A Handbook of Dates provides in clear, user-friendly form, tables which allow the calculation of the dates (and days) on which historical events fell or will fall, from AD 500 to 2100. This updated edition includes revised introductions and extra tables, making this an essential reference tool for working historians.

The publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society in 1994 provided a comprehensive guide to the rich cartographic heritage of Great Britain and Ireland. Now available from Cambridge University Press, this book is an essential reference tool for anyone requiring information about maps of the British Isles dating back to the medieval period and beyond.

Originally published in 1990, as number 16 in the Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks Series, this volume catalogues British diplomatic representatives for the period 1509 to 1688. These 179 years are of particular significance as a period in which the foundations of modern English diplomatic practices and institutions were established.

The Handbook of British Chronology is acknowledged as the authoritative and indispensable record of all holders of major offices in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from the fifth century to the late twentieth century. The third edition (which first appeared in 1986) is now available from Cambridge University Press.