26000 entries, 2500 illustrations, 1.7 million words, 1250 quotations The 2nd edition is up-to-date with current events to 1997, coverage beginning in prehistory. People, places, events, movements, terms, battles are all included with specially commissioned photographs, maps. chronologies, quotations and feature articles which look at British history in context. The Hutchinson Encyclopedia was first produced in 1948 as Hutchinson's 20th Century Encyclopedia. The editor, Walter Hutchinson, had recognised that a new encyclopedia was needed to reflect the immense changes that had occurred since the end of the Victorian era. This brand new edition is an encyclopedia for a new age, packed with over 17,000 full-length articles ndash; including genetically modified foods, the situation in the Middle East, globalization ndash;and much more, making it a foundation stone for 21st century knowledge. Brim-full of newly commissioned artwork and photographs, fact boxes, time