A New England?
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Description
This absorbing narrative history brings into sharp and lively focus a period of immense energy, creativity, and turmoil. The book opens in 1886, as the Empire is poised to celebrate Victoria's golden jubilee, and ends in 1918 at the close of the 'war to end all wars', with England knowing that an era has conclusively ended. It vividly portrays every aspect of the nation's life - political, social, and cultural - carrying the reader from the wretched city slums to the bustling docks and factories, from the grand portals of Westminster to Blackpool's new holiday beach, from the world of the leisured aristocracy to the trenches of the Western Front and the violent politics of the militant suffrage movement.Reviews
"A masterful, lucidly written and well proportioned survey over the whole range of national life."--Times Literary Supplement
"This is a marvellous book in its breadth, its comprehensiveness and, given its length, the enormous pleasure it has been to read. Necessarily a work of synthesis, it efficiently weaves together telling quotes, examples and statistics to conjure up the late Victorian and Edwardian world."--History Today
"Searle's book is notable for its thematic and geographic breadth of coverage, the lucidity of its prose, and the wisdom and balance of its analysis. Readers will find expert and accessible guidance on topics of current historiographical concern...this achievement deserves the strongest recommendation. Essential."--CHOICE
