Little Englanders
eBook - ePub

Little Englanders

Britain in the Edwardian Era

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Little Englanders

Britain in the Edwardian Era

About this book

A TIMES SUMMER READ FOR 2025

'For sheer entertainment, this rollicking account of Britain before the Great War is hard to beat, brimming as it is with swindlers, murderers and charlatans, imperialist fantasies and saucy innuendos' 'History Books of the Year', The Times


'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston

When Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was the end of an era. Many later remembered the era that followed as the long afternoon of an empire where the sun never set. Yet the Edwardians knew the country was in a state of flux; the seismic change that they felt would transform modern Britain forever.

In Little Englanders, Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change, bringing their history alive through music halls and male beauty contests, the 1908 Summer Olympics and the real Peaky Blinders. 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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Information

Publisher
Profile Books
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781800815322

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. Note on Currency and Income
  6. Prologue: Two Deaths
  7. 1: Money and Music Hall
  8. 2: War and Imperialism
  9. 3: Past and Future
  10. 4: Home and Abroad
  11. 5: Children and Youths
  12. 6: Liberals and Labour
  13. 7: Women and Men
  14. 8: Aliens and Revolutionaries
  15. 9: Alarms and Excursions
  16. Epilogue: Two Killers
  17. Appendix: Stories and Songs
  18. References
  19. Acknowledgements
  20. Index
  21. Also by Alwyn Turner
  22. Copyright