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G. R. Searles absorbing narrative history breaks conventional chronological barriers to carry the reader from England in 1886 the apogee of the Victorian era with the nation poised to celebrate the empress queens golden jubilee to 1918 as the war to end all wars drew to a close leaving England to come to term with its price - above all in terms of human life but also in the general sense that things would never be the same again. This was an age of extremes: a period of imperial pomp and circumstance with a political elite preoccupied with display and ceremony alongside the growing cult of the simple life; the zenith of imperialism with its idealization of war on the one hand the start of the Labour Party a socialist renaissance and welfare politics on the other; and a radical challenging
of traditional gender stereotypes in the face of the prevailing cult of masculinity. Under Professor Searles historical microscope all the details of daily life spring into sharp relief. Half-forgotten figures such as Edward Carpenter Vesta Tilley and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman take their place on stage beside Oscar Wilde the Pankhursts and Lloyd George.Motoring and aviation to become such an intrinsic part of life within the next decades had their beginnings in this period as pastimes for the rich. From the wretched slums of Englands great cities to their bustling docks and factories from the grand portals of Westminster to the violent political challenges of the Ulster Unionists and the militant suffrage movement from Blackpools tower and beach packed with holidaymakers to the trenches
of the Western Front the energy creativity and often destructive turmoil of the years 1886-1918 are brought into focus in this magisterial history. THE NEW OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLAND The aim of the New Oxford History of England is to give an account of the development of the country over time. It is hard to treat that development as just the history which unfolds within the precise boundaries of England and a mistake to suggest that this implies a neglect of the histories of the Scots Irish and Welsh. Yet the institutional core of the story which runs from Anglo-Saxon times to our own is the story of a state-structure built round the English monarchy and its effective successor the Crown in Parliament.While the emphasis of individual volumes in the series will vary the ultimate outcome is
intended to be a set of standard and authoritative histories embodying the scholarship of a generation.
of traditional gender stereotypes in the face of the prevailing cult of masculinity. Under Professor Searles historical microscope all the details of daily life spring into sharp relief. Half-forgotten figures such as Edward Carpenter Vesta Tilley and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman take their place on stage beside Oscar Wilde the Pankhursts and Lloyd George.Motoring and aviation to become such an intrinsic part of life within the next decades had their beginnings in this period as pastimes for the rich. From the wretched slums of Englands great cities to their bustling docks and factories from the grand portals of Westminster to the violent political challenges of the Ulster Unionists and the militant suffrage movement from Blackpools tower and beach packed with holidaymakers to the trenches
of the Western Front the energy creativity and often destructive turmoil of the years 1886-1918 are brought into focus in this magisterial history. THE NEW OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLAND The aim of the New Oxford History of England is to give an account of the development of the country over time. It is hard to treat that development as just the history which unfolds within the precise boundaries of England and a mistake to suggest that this implies a neglect of the histories of the Scots Irish and Welsh. Yet the institutional core of the story which runs from Anglo-Saxon times to our own is the story of a state-structure built round the English monarchy and its effective successor the Crown in Parliament.While the emphasis of individual volumes in the series will vary the ultimate outcome is
intended to be a set of standard and authoritative histories embodying the scholarship of a generation.
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