This new core textbook for introductory courses in human geography provides year undergraduates with a comprehensive thematic and regional approach to the changing human geography of the UK at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Covering local, regional, national, European and global issues, it also explores in some detail topics which are part of the lived experience of undergraduates themselves, such as crime, unemployment, social exclusion and AIDS. Individual chapters cover: Historical and contemporary approaches to the human geography of the UK/ The UK in a global context/ Processes of Socio-Economic Change/Exclusion, Division and Polarisation/ Cultural change/Political Change/Population/Work and Leisure/Health and wellbeing/Culture and Identity/Policy responses/Constitutional and political change/Geographical divisions/The haves and the have-nots/The geography of division. User-friendly textbook features include: *chapter introductions, summaries and important theoretical principles *up-to-date further reading and key on-line sources *case studies, examples and revision questions Human Geography of the UK has been written by three authors who contribute their specialisms across political, economic and social geography as well as their experience in textbook authorship, and introductory level teaching.