This book is part of an invaluable series of accessible reference books packed with essential information, ideal for use at home or school. "Kings, Queens, Chiefs & Rulers" is an expansive guide to the fascinating history of the monarchy and ancient warrior leadership from Saxon and Viking times. It includes chronological entries, from the crusades of Richard I, Henry VIII's dissolution of the monarchies and the courtly politics of the reign of Elizabeth I.

Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 800 cross-referenced entries that cover significant events, places, institutions, and other aspects of British culture, economics, politics, and society.

Persons included: Cheops, Hammurabi, Thothmes III, Akhnaton, Moses, David, Solomon, Ashurbanipal, Cyrus the Great, Darius I, Leonidas, Pericles, Alexander the Great, Chandragupta Maurya Asoka, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus Caesar, Herod the Great, Boudicca, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Constantine the Great, Attila, Justinian I, Mohammed, Abd Al-Rahman, Charlemagne, Harun-al-Rashid, Alfred the Great, King Senceslas, Otto I (The Great), Brian Boru, Canute, William I (The Conqueror), Frederick Barbarossa, Saladin, Henry II (of England), Richard, Coeur de Lion, Genghis Khan, Frederick II, Louis IX (Saint Louis), Kublai Khan, Edward I, Robert Bruce, Edward III, Tamerlane (Timur), Sigismund, Henry V (of England), Louis XI, Mohammed II (The Conqueror), Ivan III (The Great), Richard III, Ferdinand V (The Catholic), Isabella I, Henry VII (of England), Montezuma, Henry VIII, Charles V (Emporer), Catherine de Medici, Philip II, Atahualpa, William the Silent, Akbar, Henry IV (of France), Queen Elizabeth I, Gustavus Adolphus, Oliver Cromwell, Charles I, Charels II, Louis XIV, Peter I (The Great), Charles XII, Frederick II (The Great), Maria Theresa, Catherine II (The Great), George Washington, Louis XVI, Napoleon I, Abraham Lincoln, Victoria, Victor Emmanuel II, Francis Joseph, Cetewayo, Edward VII, Meiji Mutsuhito Chulalongkorn, William II, George V, Sun Yat-Sen, Pilsudski, Lenin, Albert I, Kemal Ataturk, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Mao Tse-Tung, George VI, John F. Kennedy.

A 'museum of literary odds and ends', this classic work of 1870 elucidates the etymology of 20,000 words and phrases.