A History of Britain

Read this book in fairly short order.  This history was a bit different in that its theme was around the stamps that commemorated historic events.  Some of these chapters were a bit of a stretch, such as a definitive stamp, which I have in my Maps on Stamps collection, with the theme of productivity, released in 1962. The author then goes on the hunt to illustrate the stamp theme with examples, like the Beatles being very productive that year in selling millions of records.  So its a bit of light reading that makes a change from SciFi.

Stamp with a Map