Decade provides an extraordinary insight into our recent history dramatic, nostalgic, intimate and educational by turns. Arranged in chronological order, 500 beautiful, engaging and often startling photographic images depict the people and events, both famous and unknown, that have shaped our history since 2000. Accompanied and contextualized by extended historical captions and 15 essays exploring the events, trends and social phenomena that have characterized the decade, these images tell the story of the last 10 remarkable years.

Author Biography

Dr Terence McNamee is Director of Publications at the Royal United Services Institute, an independent British think tank on issues of security and defence, and editor of its flagship publication, the RUSI Journal. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and was principal writer and historian of Phaidon's acclaimed photographic history, Century (1999). He writes regularly on foreign affairs for journals and newspapers worldwide. Eamonn McCabe was named Sports Photographer of the Year four times between 1978 and 1984, before moving to the Guardian as picture editor in 1988. Director of picture coverage at the newspaper for 13 years, he went on to win Picture Editor of the Year five times. He continues to work as a professional photographer and his portraiture regularly appears in both the Observer and the Guardian.