The Kings & Queens of Britain

Professor John Cannon held the chair of Modern History at Newcastle upon Tyne until 1992. For OUP he has edited 'The Letters of Junius' (1978), wrote 'The Illustrated History of the British Monarchy' (with Ralph Griffiths, 1986; revised edition 1998), 'Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England' (1994), and edited 'The Oxford Companion to British History' (1997). For CUP he has published 'The Fox-North Coalition' (1969) and 'Aristocratic Century' (1984). 'The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians', which he edited in 1988, was awarded a Library Association prize for reference works. Dr Anne Hargreaves was formerly a clinical academic at the Welsh National School of Medicine, and at the Universities of Liverpool and Newcastle upon Tyne. She was co-editor of 'Medicine in Northumbria' (1993) and author of 'White as Whales Bone', a study of dental practice in early modern England (NUP, 1998). She was also a major contributor to 'The Oxford Companion to British History' (1997).