Providing essays, sources with questions and worked answers together with background to each topic within Irish history, Nick Pelling provides a good foundational text for the study of Anglo-Irish relations.

British Culture: An Introduction provides a comprehensive introduction to central aspects of culture and the arts in Britain today, and uses a factual approach to place them within a clear, historical context.

Thematically organized, this book examines the forces that have contributed to a sense of Britishness, and how this has been mediated by other identities such as class, gender, region, ethnicity and the sense of belonging to the UK and Ireland.