A History of Britain, Volume 2 (79 page)

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Section one

1 National Portrait Gallery; 2 The Art Archive/British Library; 3 Bridgeman Art Library; 4 National Portrait Gallery; 5 Sotheby's Transparency Library; 6 The Art Archive; 7 Fotomas Index; 8 Fotomas Index; 9 Cromwell Museum; Scottish National Portrait Gallery; 11 The Art Archive/Museum of London; 12 National Portrait Gallery; 13 Bridgeman Art Library; 14 Fotomas Index; 15 National Maritime Museum, London

Section two

1 Bridgeman Art Library/Philip Mould Historical Portraits Ltd, London; 2 National Library of Scotland; 3 John Parker; Bridgeman Art Library; 5 Bridgeman Art Library; 6 Royal Collection; 7 National Portrait Gallery; 8 Bridgeman Art Library; 9 National Portrait Gallery; 10 Bridgeman Art Library; 11 Chequers Trust; 12 National Portrait Gallery; 13 John Parker; 14 Royal Collection; 15 Bridgeman Art Library

Section three

1 English Heritage/Crown copyright NMR; 2 Royal Collection; 3 Bridgeman Art Library; 4 National Portrait Gallery; 5 Bridgeman Art Library/Foundling Museum; 6 Bridgeman Art Library/Scottish National Portrait Gallery; 7 Royal Collection; 8 Sir John Clerk of Penicuik; 9 National Trust Photographic Library; 10 National Trust Photographic Library © Jerry Harpur; 11 Bridgeman Art Library Phillips Auctioneers; 12 Bridgeman Art Library /Royal Albert Memorial Museum; 13 Bridgeman Art Library/Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Section four

1 Art Archive; 2 Royal Collection; 3 Art Resource, New York; 4 Bridgeman Art Library/Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; 5 Peter Newark's American Pictures; 6 Bridgeman Art Library/Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; 7 National Portrait Gallery; 8 British Library; 9 Art Archive/Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta; 10 courtesy of the Director of the National Army Museum; 11 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Mildred Anna Williams Collection; 12 Bridgeman Art Library; 13 Art Archive; 14 Victoria & Albert Museum

‘Epic' is a word that suffers from over-use these days, but the history of
A History of Britain
certainly has a long roll-call of heroes – other than its author – without whose unflagging labours neither television programmes nor book could possibly have got made.

At BBC Worldwide Sally Potter and my excellent editor Belinda Wilkinson have remained heroically undaunted by the prospect of what had been commissioned as one short book turning into three. In every important sense this work has been a collaboration between myself and an exceptionally gifted and devoted group of colleagues at BBC Television, in particular Ian Bremner, Martin Davidson, Liz Hartford and Mike Ibeji. Melisa Akdogan, Ben Ledden and Ashley Gethin were exceptionally resourceful both in the libraries and on location. Had I not had the tireless and invariably considerate help of Sara Fletcher, I would have come unglued in locations throughout the British Isles. Tanya Hethorn, Tim Sutton and Mark Walden-Mills have, in crucial ways, helped the presenter present. Susan Harvey in Factual Publicity has been the gentlest and friendliest of promoters. It's been a source of great happiness to work closely with John Harle on the music for the series. Laurence Rees, Glenwyn Benson and Janice Hadlow have all cast a benevolently critical eye on our work when it most mattered and have been our most generous supporters. Alan Yentob and Greg Dyke have both given us the sense of how much
A History of Britain
matters to the BBC.