J. Tomlinson, Public Policy and the Economy since 1900 (Oxford, 1990).

政治

P. Addison, The Road to 1945 (London, 1975)，书中讲述的是二战时期的政治冲突和共识，扣人心弦。

S. Beer, Modern British Politics (new edn., London, 1982)，一篇触动人心的专题文章。

R. Blake, The Conservative Party from Peel to Major (new edn., London,1997).

C. Hazlehurst, Politicians at War, July 1914 to May 1915 (London, 1971).

P. Hennessy, Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties (London, 2006).

D. Kavanagh, Thatcherism and British Politics (Oxford, 1984).

R. McKibbin, The Evolution of the Labour Party, 1910-1924 (Oxford, 1983).

D. Marquand, The Unprincipled Society (London, 1988)，一篇对英国政治经济学的敏锐评论。

K. O. Morgan, Consensus and Disunity (Oxford, 1979)，战后英国(1918至1922年)。

——Labour in Power, 1945-1951 (Oxford, 1984).

——Labour People: Leaders and Lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock (new edn, Oxford, 1992).

R. A. C. Parker, Chamberlain and Appeasement (London, 1993)，一份强有力的重新评估。

M. Pugh, The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939 (London, 2008)，一项对学生有帮助的研究。

J. Ramsden, An Appetite for Power (London, 1998)，保守党的现代史。

D. Reynolds, Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century (London, 1991)，一篇高质量的概论。

D. Sandbrook, White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties (London, 2006).

A. Seldon (ed.), Blairs Britain, 1994-2007 (London, 2007).

R. Skidelsky, Politicians and the Slump (London, 1968)，第二届工党政府。

T. Wilson, The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935 (London, 1966).

传记

R. Blake and R. Louis (eds.), Churchill (Oxford, 1993)，该书的小短文具有权威性。

B. Brivati, Hugh Gaitskell (London, 1996).

A. Bullock, The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin, 3 vols. (London, 1960, 1967, 1983).

J. Campbell, Edward Heath (London, 1993).

——Margaret Thatcher, 2 vols. (London, 2000, 2003).

B. Crick, George Orwell: A Life (London, 1980).

D. Dilks, Neville Chamberlain, vo. i (Cambridge, 1984).

R. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, vol. i (Oxford, 1997).

V. Glendinning, Leonard Woolf: A Life (London, 2006).

J. Harris, William Beveridge (Oxford, 1977).

K. Harris, Attlee (London, 1982).

P. Hollis, Jennie Lee: A Life (Oxford, 1997).

C. Hussey, The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens (London, 1950).

M. Kennedy, The Life of Elgar (Cambridge, 2004).

H. Lee, Virginia Woolf (London, 1996).

D. Marquand, Ramsay Macdonald (London, 1977).

K. O Morgan, Callaghan: A Life (Oxford, 1997).

——Michael Foot: A Life (London, 2007).

B. Pimlott, Hugh Dalton (London, 1985).

B. Pimlott, Harold Wilson (London, 1992).

J. Rentoul, Tony Blair: Prime Minister (London, 2001).

D. Reynolds, In Command of History (London, 2004)，关于丘吉尔的战争回忆录的写作背景介绍。

J. Shepherd, George Lansbury (Oxford, 2002).

R. Skidelsky, John and Maynard Keyes, vols. i-iii (London, 1983, 1992, 2000).

P. Williamson, Stanley Baldwin (Cambridge, 1999).

H. Young, One of Us (London, 1989)，关于撒切尔夫人。

苏格兰、爱尔兰和威尔士

V. Bogdanor, Devolution in the United Kingdom (Oxford, 1999).

J. Davies, A History of Wales (London, 1993; new edn., 2007).

T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation 1700-2000 (London, 1999).

C. Harvie, Scotland and Nationalism (new edn., London, 1994).

——No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland 1914-1980 (new edn., London, 1998).

J. R. Hill (ed.), A New History of Ireland, vii: Ireland 1921-1984 (Oxford, 2003).

J. Lee, Ireland, 1922-1985: Politics and Society (Cambridge, 1989).

F. S. L. Lyons, Ireland since the Famine (rev. edn., London, 1973)，一份对19世纪40年代到20世纪70年代的权威研究。

K. O. Morgan, Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980 (Oxford and Cardiff, 1981).

文化和艺术

G. Abraham, The Concise Oxford History of Music (Oxford, 1979).

B. Bergonzi (ed.), The Twentieth Century: Sphere History of Literature in the English Language, vol vii (London, 1970).

M. Billington, State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 (London, 2007).

D. Farr, English Art, 1870-1940 (Oxford, 1978)，包括建筑风格。

B. Ford (ed.), The Pelican Guide to English Literature, vii: From James to Eliot (rev. edn., London, 1983).

——(ed.), The Pelican Guide to English Literature, viii: The Present (London, 1983).

——(ed.), The Cambridge Cultural History of Britain, vol ix (Cambridge, 1992)，内容全面详尽。

J. Gross, The Rise and Fall of the English Man of Letters (London, 1969)，一篇出色的研究报告。

R. Hewison, In Anger: Culture and the Cold War (London, 1981).

——Too Much: Art and Society in the Sixties, 1960-1975 (London, 1988).

——Culture and Consensus (London, 1995).

P. Kidson, P. Murray, and P. Thompson (eds.), A History of English Architecture (London, 1979).

A. Marwick, Culture in Britain since 1945 (London, 1991).

W. W. Robson, Modern English Literature (Oxford, 1970)，最佳的简短叙述。

R. Samuel, Theatres of Memory (London, 1994).

——Island Stories (London, 1998).

P. Young, A History of British Music (London, 1967).