This book is a comprehensive survey for students, specialists and general readers of all major branches of the arts in early Britain. It also reveals the cultural and social setting in which writers, musicians, architects and other artists of the period worked.

Cover title: The Cambridge cultural history. Previously published as: The Cambridge guide to the arts in Britain. 1988-1991.

v. 1. Early Britain -- v. 2. Medieval Britain -- v. 3. Sixteenth-century Britain -- v. 4. Seventeenth-century Britain -- v. 5. Eighteenth-century Britain -- v. 6. The Romantic age in Britain -- v. 7. Victorian Britain -- v. 8. Early twentieth-century Britain -- v. 9. Modern Britain.