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Little Englanders

By Alwyn Turner

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Little Englanders

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'Alwyn Turner is the master of funny, engaging social history' Sunday Times A Times Best Paperback of 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2025-01-02
Publication Date:
2025-01-02
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
180081531X
ISBN13:
9781800815315
Weight:
308 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
193 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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