Key Books on Countries
at Bedfordshire Libraries

• Available at all libraries, the annual Whitaker's almanack, has a country by country section giving concise essential information, including the names of each country's currency and national anthem; government personnel and addresses of embassies or high commissions; brief overviews of history and politics, defence, economy and, in many cases, communications, culture and education; key statistics
• At larger libraries you can find more detailed key statistics for individual countries in books such as the Britannica book of the year and the Statesman's yearbook. For European Union statistics, see Eurostat's 'Year book', available at Bedford Central, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard libraries
• For detailed political and economic country information see 'Keesings record of world events'. It gives you a monthly digest of news, country by country. 'Keesing's' has annual name and subject indexes enable you to pinpoint information
• You can look back over the years too - Bedford Central Library has 'Keesings' from 1931 to the present and Dunstable Library has it from 1943 to the present
• The larger libraries also have the printed set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has long articles on countries and key maps
• Library catalogue - choose to search by 'Subject' and enter a country name
• Contact us - if you need help to find information

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