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'A convincing account of a watershed epoch, Hattersley's concise yet comprehensive history casts new light on a much-misunderstood era.'- Publishers WeeklyEdwardian Britain has often been described as a golden sunlit afternoon---personified by its genial and self-indulgent King. In fact, modern Britain was born during the reign of Edward VII, when politics, science, literature, and the arts were turned upside down.In Parliament, the peers were crushed for the first time since Magna Carta. Irish nationalists and suffragettes took politics out on to the streets. Home Rule and Votes for Women were delayed, not precipitated, by the First World War.Great parliamentary stars such as Lloyd George and Winston Churchill typified an era in which personalities dominated the headlines of the new tabloid newspapers. It was the age of Rolls and Royce, Scott and Shackleton, Edward Elgar, Shaw, the Pankhursts, and Mrs. Alice Keppel, whose social life was reported without mention of her relationship with the King.The theater of ideas superseded drawing room dramas. Novelists of genius---from Henry James to D. H. Lawrence---produced a masterpiece each year. A London gallery caused a sensation with a

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Author

Roy Hattersley

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250096227

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.76 / 5 (722 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14