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Little Englanders : Britain in the Edwardian Era / Alwyn Turner.
By: Turner, Alwyn W [author.]
.Publisher: London : Profile Books, 2024Description: 400 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781800815308 (hbk.).Subject(s): Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910 | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 941.0823 Summary: In 'Little Englanders', Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change, with the rise of women's suffrage and the labour movement, unrest in Ireland and the Boer republics, scandals in parliament and culture wars at home. He tells the story of the Edwardians through music halls and male beauty contests, the real Peaky Blinders and the 1908 Summer Olympics. In this colourful, detailed and hugely entertaining social history, Turner shows that, though the golden Victorian age was in the past, the birth of modern Britain was only just beginning.
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| 941.0823 CHA Splendid isolation? : | 941.0823 HAT The Edwardians / | 941.0823 LEE The People's Budget : | 941.0823 TUR Little Englanders : Britain in the Edwardian Era / | 941.082309252 BOA Mrs Pankhurst's purple feather : | 941.083 BEN The Zinoviev letter : | 941.083 CON Conservative politics in national and imperial crisis : |
In 'Little Englanders', Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change, with the rise of women's suffrage and the labour movement, unrest in Ireland and the Boer republics, scandals in parliament and culture wars at home. He tells the story of the Edwardians through music halls and male beauty contests, the real Peaky Blinders and the 1908 Summer Olympics. In this colourful, detailed and hugely entertaining social history, Turner shows that, though the golden Victorian age was in the past, the birth of modern Britain was only just beginning.