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Author: Andrew Marr Publisher: Pan MacMillan ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 504
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A portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.
Author: Andrew Marr Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 0230747175 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 500
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In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ‘How should we live?’ Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers and Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs and celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page.
Author: Derek Birley Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719037597 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 372
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This lively and stimulating book looks at some of the myths and realities surrounding Britain's legendary enthusiasm for sport; and aims to chronicle how sporting traditions were shaped and how they, in turn, contributed to the shaping of British social conventions and attitudes.
Author: Steven G. Ellis Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317901428 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 504
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The second edition of Steven Ellis's formidable work represents not only a survey, but also a critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland. It explores Ireland both as a frontier society divided between English and Gaelic worlds, and also as a problem of government within the wider Tudor state. This edition includes two major new chapters: the first extending the coverage back a generation, to assess the impact on English Ireland of the crisis of lordship that accompanied the Lancastrian collapse in France and England; and the second greatly extending the material on the Gaelic response to Tudor expansion.
Author: Andrew Marr Publisher: Pan MacMillan ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 504
Book Description
A portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.
Author: Alexander Grant Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134791887 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 321
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A group of Britain's most prestigious historians assemble to explore the formation of the UK, its history and its identity. Traditional regional and chronological frontiers are broken down as mediev- alists, modernists and early modernists debate.
Author: Laura Beers Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674050020 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 276
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New Labour's electoral success of the late 20th century was due in no small part to its grasp of media communication. This book reminds us that the importance of the mass media to Labour's political fortunes is by no means a modern phenomenon.
Author: G. Kitson Clark Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136124209 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 236
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Based on the Ford Lectures, delivered at Oxford in 1960, the author describes some of the forces which created what we call `Victorian England'.
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