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The Edwardians, by Roy Hattersley
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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The theater of ideas superseded drawing room dramas.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Drawing on previously unpublished diaries and letters, Roy Hattersley's The Edwardians is a beguiling account of a turbulent and frequently misunderstood period.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.
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- Published on: 2015-09-01
- Released on: 2015-09-01
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From Publishers Weekly In this intricate, self-assured and insightfully anecdotal account of British social and political history from 1901 to 1914, Hattersley (Nelson, etc.), a former Labour MP and cabinet minister, challenges the notion of the Edwardian age as "a long and sunlit afternoon," instead presenting it as a time of massive upheaval. After dissecting the louche temperament of King Edward VII, Hattersley profiles the period's leading political protagonists, including the "young turks" A.J. Balfour and Joseph Chamberlain (each "handicapped by character weaknesses") and analyzes the politically efficacious if "unlikely partnership" of soldier Winston Churchill and Welsh solicitor David Lloyd George. Pithy chapters delineate the raging issues that fatally divided the Liberal Party: empire and the Boer War, Irish nationalism, women's suffrage, the trade union movement and the rise of the Labour Party. Throughout Hattersley emphasizes the House of Commons' transformation in this period from a "gentleman's Parliament" into a professional legislature. He also summarizes cultural and social highlights, such as the professionalization of sports; new movements in the arts; intellectual life and church politics; and of course the advent of WWI. Illuminating the motivations of individuals and the age-old tensions between prominent elite families, Hattersley also challenges the traditional leftist view of Churchill. A convincing account of a watershed epoch, Hattersley's concise yet comprehensive history casts new light on a much-misunderstood era. 16 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review "There is a vacancy for the role in [British] culture of a senior politician who can write a proper history.... The main contender is...Roy Hattersley." ---The Sunday Times (London)"This is well-judged narrative history, shrewd and stirring in equal measure.... Edwardian imagination, Edwardian true grit, and the sheer effort and ingenuity they put into being modern all receive acknowledgment in this rewarding book." ---David Trotter, The Guardian"Roy Hattersley is now carving a niche as a master of popular history and biography.... Hattersley carries off his chapters with a magnificent swagger.... This splendid popular history will confirm Hattersley's status as one of the most interesting writer-politicians of our time." ---Daily Express"This is a handsome book. Written with style, grace,and wit, it is informative and perceptive, and for the first time brings the whole history of Edwardian Britain into a single focus for the general reader. The task required an author of wide accomplishments, ranging from practical insight into politics, a historian's skills, and literary talent; and here it has abundantly found them." ---The Independent on Sunday "Roy Hattersley, in his thorough and informative new history, gives the social whirl of the aristocracy its due. But he pays much more attention to what really mattered . . . a readable and very wide-ranging history, taking in everything Edwardian." ---The Daily Mail"What makes this book is not just the quality of its social and political analysis, but the breadth of detail and the quality of its gossipy anecdotes . . . [a] fascinating book." ---The Glasgow Herald"Intricate, self-assured and insightfully anecdotal account of British social and political history from 1901 to 1914… A convincing account of a watershed epoch, Hattersley's concise yet comprehensive history casts new light on a much-misunderstood era."---Publishers Weekly"Intricate, self-assured and insightfully anecdotal account of British social and political history from 1901 to 1914… A convincing account of a watershed epoch, Hattersley's concise yet comprehensive history casts new light on a much-misunderstood era."---Publishers Weekly (Publishers Weekly)
About the Author Roy Hattersley is a former deputy leader of the Labour Party and former Cabinet minister. He stood down as a Member of Parliament in 1997 and has been a member of the House of Lords. He has written biographies of Nelson, William and Catherine Booth, John Wesley, and a history of Britain since the First World War. He has also written three novels.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful. A solid survey of Edwardian England from 1901 to the beginning of World War I By C. M Mills King Edward VII ruled Great Britain from the death of hismother the venerable Queen Victoria. In the years of his briefmonarchy from 1901-1910 the British Isles became a modern, industrial nation. The Edwardians are often portrayed as the gentle gentlemen and ladies who lived quiet lives of splendor and wealth prior to theGreat War of August,1914 that bled European dry of its young man-hood. Not so! The age was noted for rapid advances in:technology-Hattersly tells us of the developments in flight,automobiles and shippingAn age of revolution for women suffragetes and common persons demanding the vote. Public education was extended during thisperiod. England was 77% urban with a high rate of literary ascompared with the previous Victorian age.The English novel flourished with such authors as Henry James,D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster penning classics.Poetry was in flower as witness the work of William Butler Yeats while the theatre of ideas was the realm of George Bernard Shaw.English music was most noted in the works of the muse of the empire Sir Edward Elgar.Politics in the House of Common saw such stars emerge as theyoung Winston Churchill. Notable politicians included PrimeMinister Balfour and David Lloyd-George. The Labour Party grewin power and influence during the age. British expeditions resulted in Scott's failed try to reach theSouth Pole and the exploits of South Pole explorer Sir Shackleton. Professional sports became voguish as cricket, rugby football and the 1908 London Olympics were featured. Boxing and HorseRacing were very popular with all levels of society showing a keen interest. Journalism catered to the grew literacy rate and the BritishEmpire dealt with such issues as Irish Home Rule the Boer War andthe rulership of India and other distant lands. Hattersly book does have errors. Middlemarch by George Eliot was written and published in the 1870s instead of the 1890s. The book is written in a dry, somewhat academic style. A livelier and more reader friendly account of the same period may be found in A.N. Wilson's new book "After the Victorians." This was a book worth reading if you approach it as someonepicking up a textbook.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Engaging! By Girl Friday Reader I was excited to see a brand new book devoted to the Edwardian era since the interest in the era seems to have died out in the 1970s. Though wordy at times, Hattersley brings to life the glamour and the harsh reality that existed side by side in a time that has been swept away by the World Wars. Hattersley's book is an excellent, and at times more detailed introduction into the era known as Edwardian--though books published in the 1970s and before have the benefit of being authored by contemporaries of the time and/or contemporaries of that time were still living.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Well Researched, Provocative and Entertaining Read : By John Silence is Golden The author obviously took a long look at Samuel Hynes 1968 classic rendering of this era {The Edwardian Turn of Mind} in the writting and orgainizing of this excellent book. The format, themes and issues examined in both these books are similar. Both authors use contemporary well known politcians, authors, artists and playwrights { Balfour, Asquith, Lloyd George, H,G,Wells . Gallsworthy Bernard Shaw} as well as the {in 2015} unknown {Keir Hardie, Charles Masterman , Harley Granvile Barker Lord Elsher} to show how political, social and economic problems, changes and anxieties give lie to belief of an "Edwardian Garden Party" - a combination of Downtown Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs".The Author highlights how anxiety and uncertainty haunts the Edwardians - can Britian compete economicaly in the 20th century, will the Empire survive, the problem of women wanting the right to vote and more say / opportunities for their lives, censorship of writers and ideas, turbulent social change, the rise of socialism and orgainized labor, were the British becoming less 'English" in their national character and celebrating brave, amateur and foolish} men of action/adventure {Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton} joining the national parthenon of heroes. AND presiding over the entire scene was the shrewd, genial, pleasure loving Edward V11 who was pulling in the opposite direction against many of the portents of the era and yet remaining immensely popular with all classes.The author expertly covers the major political topics of 1901-1914 - the causes and long term effects of the Boer War, the rise of the Labor Party, Lloyd- George and Winston Churchill, the House of Lords Consitutional Crisis, the Irish Home Rule Crisis, the Conservative Party divided and in disarray and why the dominant Liberal Government had such a mediocre record {for all their good intentions} in addressing the problems of low wages, income inequality and the more and more militant dissatisfaction of its working class consituents. The information/chapter on the runup to the start of the 1st World War is brief but well done.The Edwardian Era was seemingly the apogee of Great Britains power and prestige, ruling the worlds largest empire, the largest navy and merchant marine, the greatest trading nation with London the financial and social center of the world AND YET the author shows that the era was one of crisis, change and uncertainty. The 1st World War blasted this old order to pieces and accelerated the changes visibly on the rise during the Edwardian age - the author shows how politics ,science, the arts, society, sports and relationships between men and women, nothing could or would ever be the same.This is an informative, lucid and entertaining read and I give it a 5 star rating - Recommended.
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