The Edwardians

The Edwardians
Author :
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 548
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250096227
ISBN-13 : 1250096227
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Edwardians by : Roy Hattersley

Download or read book The Edwardians written by Roy Hattersley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A convincing account of a watershed epoch, Hattersley's concise yet comprehensive history casts new light on a much-misunderstood era." - Publishers Weekly Edwardian 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 The theater of ideas superseded drawing room dramas.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 an exhibition of "Postimpressionists." Edward Elgar was the first English composer for two hundred years to stand comparison with the continental European masters. In sport, Victorian chivalry was replaced with unashamed professionalism. Man flew for the first time and the motorcar became a common sight on city streets. Physicists examined the structure of the atom and philosophers disputed the traditional definition of virtue. The churches tried, without success, to confront and confound a new skepticism. Explorers sought to prove that men could live, and die, like gods. Drawing on previously unpublished diaries and letters, Roy Hattersley's The Edwardians is a beguiling account of a turbulent and frequently misunderstood period. It is a full and often humorous portrait of an era that he elevates to its rightful place in British history.


The Edwardians Related Books

The Edwardians
Language: en
Pages: 548
Authors: Roy Hattersley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-01 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"A convincing account of a watershed epoch, Hattersley's concise yet comprehensive history casts new light on a much-misunderstood era." - Publishers Weekly Edw
Empire
Language: en
Pages: 437
Authors: Jeremy Paxman
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-06 - Publisher: Penguin UK

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for reade
Eminent Edwardians
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Piers Brendon
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Eminent Edwardians is a classic biography which will now find, particularly with the renewed interest in Strachey and his work and the recent biographical esays
The Edwardians
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Anne Gray
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Australia in March 2004 that aims to reassess the art of the Edwardian period, focu
Edwardian Culture
Language: en
Pages: 489
Authors: Samuel Shaw
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-22 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. Bringing toget