Great British Family Names and Their History: What's in a Name?

A reference guide to hundreds of surnames that reveal the story of the United Kingdom across generations and centuries.

To some extent, we are all products of our family history, the many generations before us. So it is with nations. The history of Great Britain has been largely defined by powerful and influential families, many of whose names came down from Celtic, Danish, Saxon or Norman ancestors. Their family names fill the pages of history books, indelibly written into events we lear...