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Book Synopsis The Edwardians by : Mr Paul R Thompson
Download or read book The Edwardians written by Mr Paul R Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Must be regarded as an important step in rescuing Edwardian history from what he rightly calls "an academic limbo" ... combines the qualities of readability, breadth of focus, willingness to explain.' - TES
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 The theater of ideas superseded drawing room dramas.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.
Download or read book Black Edwardians written by Jeffrey Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reveals the presence of black people in all walks of life all over the British Isles at the height of the imperialist era - challenging conventional views on imperialism, racism and British social history. Historians of British society have largely ignored this most visible of minorities, and commentators on racism have been silent on the period.
Book Synopsis The Edwardians and Their Houses by : Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Download or read book The Edwardians and Their Houses written by Timothy Brittain-Catlin and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwardian domestic architecture was beautiful and varied in style, and was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative, and provided new building types for weekends, sport and gardening, as well as fascinating insights into attitudes to historic architecture, health and science. 0This book is the first radical overview of the period since the 1970s, and focuses on how the leading circle of the Liberal Party, who built incessantly and at every scale, influenced the pattern of building across England. It also looks at the building literature of the period, from Country Life to the mass-production picture books for builders and villa builders, and traces the links between these houses and suburbs on the one hand, and the literature and other creative forms of the period of the other. It is part of a new movement to explore the ways in which architectural history is recorded and adds up to an original interpretation of British culture of the period.
Book Synopsis The Edwardians by : John Boynton Priestley
Download or read book The Edwardians written by John Boynton Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the essence of the era in a lively study of its politics, personalities, technical innovations, arts and preoccupations. Includes chapters on the Prince of Wales, the Boer War, High Society and working class, the Middle Classes, writers, music, artists and craftsmen, the theatre, music hall and vaudeville, the press, the constitutional crisis, bosses and workers, suffragettes, the Titanic, Russian ballet, science and Gowland Hopkins, ragtime, Ulster and Home rule, etc.
Book Synopsis The Edwardian Sense by : Morna O'Neill
Download or read book The Edwardian Sense written by Morna O'Neill and published by Yc British Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the twentieth in a series of occasional volumes devoted to studies in British art, published by the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and distributed by Yale University Press. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book The Edwardians written by Anne Gray and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, focusing in particular on the art of Australia. Among Australia's most loved artists are those who went to Europe at the turn of the 19th century to study and live. Many of them stayed abroad for two decades and, like Australian film stars of today, became absorbed onto the world stage. This book places the work of these artists in the context of the British, Irish and American artists with whom they exhibited and associated, and demonstrates their parallel concerns in painterly approach and subject. Opening with paintings by Whistler, which were so influential on the artists of this period, the exhibition focuses on figurative paintings by select British, Irish, American and Australian artists from 1900 to 1914. It also includes George Lambert's King Edward VII (1910), completed shortly before Edward's death and now held in the Commonwealth of Australia Collection. In total the exhibition comprises approximately 140 paintings, sculptures, costumes and fan designs drawn from national and international collections.
Book Synopsis Electric Edwardians by : Vanessa Toulmin
Download or read book Electric Edwardians written by Vanessa Toulmin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electric Edwardians presents a stunning visual record of the films of Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, combined with an illuminating discussion of the films and the social context of their production by Vanessa Toulmin, a leading authority on the collection. Advertised as 'local films for local people', the films of Mitchell and Kenyon were commissioned by travelling exhibitors in the early twentieth century for screening in town halls, village fetes and local fairs. Audiences paid to see their neighbours, families and themselves on the screen, glimpsed at work and at play. This attractive volume includes over 200 illustrations drawn from the Mitchell and Kenyon collection, as well as contemporary posters and handbills from the National Fairground Archive. Vanessa Toulmin's lucid accompanying text provides an introduction to the work of the M&K company, the showmen who commissioned their films, and their place in early British cinema. Focusing on major themes, such as Leisure and Recreation, Sport, Industry, the Boer War and the City, Toulmin explores how the M&K collection deepens our understanding of these key aspects of Edwardian life.
Book Synopsis Lost Voices of the Edwardians by : Max Arthur
Download or read book Lost Voices of the Edwardians written by Max Arthur and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Arthur, bestselling author of the hugely popular Forgotten Voices series, recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era.
Book Synopsis The Edwardian House by : Helen C. Long
Download or read book The Edwardian House written by Helen C. Long and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how Edwardian houses were built, how they were used, and what they meant at the time.
Book Synopsis Edwardians in Love by : Anita Leslie
Download or read book Edwardians in Love written by Anita Leslie and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1974 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Land by : Victoria Sackville-West
Download or read book The Land written by Victoria Sackville-West and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mediterranean Passion by : John Pemble
Download or read book The Mediterranean Passion written by John Pemble and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The only remarkable thing people can tell of their doings these days is that they have stayed at home', declared George Eliot in 1869. In Victorian and Edwardian Britain travel became the rage. The middle classes and the aristocracy seemed in a constant flux of arrival and departure, their luggage festooned with foreign labels. The revolution in transport made this possible. The Mediterranean Passion describes how the British travelled to the South and where they went. Drawing on what these travellers wrote, and what was written for them, it enriches our understanding of the Victorians and Edwardians by exploring the medical, religious, sexual and aesthetic dimensions of their journeys and illuminates an important but neglected aspect of British social and cultural history. '... combines scholarship with charm ... It could easily be taken to the Mediterranean on a holiday and read with pleasure on a sunny beach or in the shade of a church.' Asa Briggs, Financial Times 'I was impressed not merely by the range of his erudition - historical, cultural, literary, topographical, medical et al. - and by the depth of his enquiries into his subject but by the subtlety and refinement of his prose. He deals with very elusive, complex and culturally contradictory matters, upon which few, if any, could arrive at persuasive generalisations; yet he does so throughout the book, while his conclusion is a marvel of judgment, excelling even what his preceded.' David Selbourne (author of The Principle of Duty) The Mediterranean Passion was the joint winner of the 1987 Wolfson Literary Award for History.
Book Synopsis The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession by : Kirsty Hooper
Download or read book The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession written by Kirsty Hooper and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did the Edwardians know about Spain and what was that knowledge worth? This book explores a vast store of largely unstudied primary source material to trace Spain's transformation in the British popular and economic imagination during the decades either side of the turn of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Eminent Edwardians by : Piers Brendon
Download or read book Eminent Edwardians written by Piers Brendon and published by Random House UK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his account of four figures (Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell), each of them, in their different ways, "monsters," Piers Brendon writes wittily and succinctly--and illuminates an age. Their eminence was global, not just because Britannia ruled the waves, but because they made a lasting international impact: imprinting an indelible media presence on contemporary life; filling the powder-keg which is still the Middle East; leading the emancipation of women; and preparing the younger generation for a world shaped by the ebbing of empire.--From publisher description.
Book Synopsis Pocket Guide to Edwardian England by : Evangeline Holland
Download or read book Pocket Guide to Edwardian England written by Evangeline Holland and published by Evangeline Holland. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from lectures and blog posts on Edwardian Promenade, the Pocket Guide to Edwardian England poses to give a fun, frothy, but thorough look at the time period made popular by Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs! From the royal family of Edward VII to the working class, to the servants who toiled in great country houses and their masters, to the mighty politicians and their goals. For anyone wanting a short and concise, yet deeply engrossing look at this opulent era, Pocket Guide to Edwardian England is just book to take you away.
Book Synopsis The Edwardians and Their Culture by : Karsten Keuchler
Download or read book The Edwardians and Their Culture written by Karsten Keuchler and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Dortmund (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: A collection of essays on the Edwardian Age based on texts written at that time. I. On the Character of the Edwardian Age II. On J. B. Priestley: The Excesses of Edwardian High Society III. On Paul Thompson: Sidney Ford (lower middle class, London) IV. On Vita Sackville-West: Parties and Meals: A Helpful Routine V. Conclusion At first glance it seems ridiculous speaking of an 'age' when the period that has to be given a name did not last any longer than ten years. However those ten years which all of the three authors write about, truly deserve this attribute although it appears as rather "dull" compared to the period before, namely the reign of Victoria (Porter, p. 128), a hectic and heroic age when battles were fought and won and frontiers were pushed forward. The term Edwardian Age does not only stand for the reign of Edward, but also for a very special place in British history which marks the changeover from the old to the modern British society. It is associated with a huge number of political and social developments. The question all of the three texts try to answer is whether the Edwardian Age should be regarded as a golden age or as an age of crisis, which has obviously been discussed since the era itself. In fact, there are reasons to define the Edwardian Age with both of these terms...
