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The age of decadence : Britain 1880 to 1914 / Simon Heffer.
By: Heffer, Simon [author.]
.Publisher: London : Random House Books, 2017Description: xii, 897 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847947420; 1847947425.Other title: Britain 1880 to 1914.Subject(s): Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 | Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910 | Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 941.081 Summary: "The folk memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V's coronation and the London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet things were very different below the surface. In 'The Age of Decadence' Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 941.081 HEF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Issued | 09/05/2024 | 014781 |
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| 941.081 FRE 1895 : | 941.081 HAL Defining the Victorian nation : | 941.081 HEF High minds : | 941.081 HEF The age of decadence : | 941.081 HOM Royal representations : Queen Victoria and British culture, 1837-1876 / | 941.081 HOP The mid-Victorian generation : | 941.081 JON The last rising : |
"The folk memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V's coronation and the London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet things were very different below the surface. In 'The Age of Decadence' Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain."-- Provided by publisher.