200th Anniversary of Burke’s Peerage 1826–2026
Burke’s Peerage is a world-famous institution that has recorded the genealogy of historical families for 200 years. Today, its books can be found in the private collections and the public libraries of most countries around the world.
What began in the early 19th century as a record of a small but powerful group of the ruling elite of the British Empire has since developed to encompass the complexity and diversity of the whole of humanity in the early 21st century.
Burke’s Peerage is unique, and its archive collection is incomparable. It has recorded tens of thousands of families and hundreds of thousands of individuals from almost every nation on Earth, spanning more than 2000 years of history.
