{"id":5671,"count":59,"description":"The UK or, to give it its full title, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state comprising 4 countries or, more accurately, three and a half, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (The Republic of Ireland - Eire - has been an independent state for about a century).\u00a0 The constitutional relationship between the constituent parts has always been contested (often violently) and remains so to this day.\r\n\r\nWe have a lot of interviews relating to the UK, to its politics and history, its culture, literature and its royal family.\u00a0 Like the country itself, there is a bias towards England.\r\n\r\nOn the history front, we have Stephen Pincus choosing his best books on the Glorious Revolution<\/a>, Matthew Green looking at London\u2019s addictions<\/a>, essentially the role that chocolate, tobacco, coffee and tea have played in the social life of the capital over the centuries.\u00a0 Ian Mortimer looks at Life in the Tudor era<\/a>, Stella Tillyard at the history of the Regency Period<\/a> and Juliet Gardiner at life in 1930s Britain<\/a>.\r\n\r\nA number of interviews looks at issues related specifically to the UK's Imperial history.\u00a0 David Cannadine chooses his best books on the British Empire<\/a>.\u00a0 And Bernard Bailyn looks at the UK\u2019s imperial role in his best books on Atlantic history<\/a>.\u00a0 Julia Lovell looks at the Opium Wars<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOther interviews relate to culture in the UK.\u00a0 Interviews on Shakespeare<\/a>, the UK\u2019s greatest Romantic poems<\/a>, the Oxford English dictionary<\/a>, buildings in the UK<\/a>, the English countryside<\/a> and British Cinema<\/a>, to name a few.\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of interviews covering UK politics.\u00a0 Jonathan Portes chooses his best books on Brexit<\/a>.\u00a0 Murray Pittock looks at Irish Unionism<\/a>, and Anthony Seldon on Prime Ministers<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Peter Kellner looks at British democracy<\/a> and David Owen on Constitutional Reform<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThere are also a lot of interviews on the UK\u2019s monarchy and the royal family. Hugo Vickers chooses his best royal biographies<\/a>, and Andrew Morton his best on British royalty<\/a>.\u00a0 Helen Castor her best on Queens and Power<\/a>.\u00a0 Thomas Penn looks at Henry VII<\/a> and John Morrill at Oliver Cromwell<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/europe\/britain\/","name":"Britain","slug":"britain","taxonomy":"category","parent":5304,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5304"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5671"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5671"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}