- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd; Microprint edition (20 Aug 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0750901543
- ISBN-13: 978-0750901543
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.2 x 6.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,317,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The thirteen-volume Complete Peerage (1910-59) remains the standard reference work for the peerage of Britain and Ireland, containing entries for every hereditary peer from 1265 onwards. The long-awaited new volume corrects all known errors and adds a wealth of new information resulting from decades of research. In addition it brings the hereditary peerage up to date, containing entries for all peers not previously listed, including those created recently.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The Complete Peerage is a listing of titles of nobility and their holders from Norman times to the twentieth century (a continuation - Addenda and Corrigenda - to 1995 is also available from amazon.co.uk). The current edition - printing four pages on one to compress the full work into six convenient volumes - is, next to the DNB, the most important reference for British history, and its re-entry into print is long overdue! The information is as accurate as available, and the footnotes are a delight (though the authors follow Dr. Johnson's alleged rule of never giving the Whig dogs the best of it - William III and Home Rule set them foaming at the mouth!) If you are at all interested in British history, get the Complete Peerage...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The Complete Peerage (until recently out-of-print, regrettably!) is THE reference for those wanting nuts-and-bolts data on the British peerage - an essential component of British history. This supplement (by historian Peter Hammond) corrects errors in the original (especially in the light of recent scholarship) and continues the extant peerage to 1995, as well as including post-1938 creations. There are mistakes (the Margadale peerage - the last pre-Thatcher hereditary creation - is somehow omitted) but few. This is a fine book, and should appeal to the professional scholar and the amateur lover of British history.
Format:Hardcover
This book was described merely as in 'acceptable' condition but was in fact in what I would describe as good to very good. Dispatch was fast and postage excellent. A useful addition to our office library.
Many thanks
Richard
Many thanks
Richard
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Excellent source for the true genealogist!
G.E.C.'s "The Complete Peerage" is an exhaustive source of genealogical information, which includes pedigree charts on numerous Royal and Noble famillies in the United Kingdom... Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2006 by Bookreader79424
For lovers of British History: A MUST
maybe that sounds a bit silly to say this about "The Complete Peerage" as it is not even a book which you read in the strictest sense. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2003 by Amelrode
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