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High Minds : The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain by Simon Heffer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"An ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian Age—and the Victorian mind—by a master historian. Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest, and uncertainty; there were attempts to assassinate the queen and her prime minister; and the ruling class lived in fear of riot and revolution. By the 1880s it was a confident nation of progress and prosperity, transformed not just by industrialization but by new attitudes to politics, education, women, and the working class. That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of people—politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers—who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions and its mindset, and laid the foundations for modern society. High Minds explores this process of transformation as it traces the evolution of British democracy and shows how early laissez-faire attitudes to the fate of the less fortunate turned into campaigns to improve their lives and prospects. The narrative analyzes the birth of new attitudes in education, religion, and science. And High Minds shows how even such aesthetic issues as t
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Simon Heffer
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781643139180
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, European History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (143 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14