After The Victorians

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Number of Pages: 624

When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain’s power and influence decline? This is one of the questions which A. N. Wilson seeks to answer in his masterly follow-up to ‘The Victorians’. As in the previous book, he has also painted the portrait of an age. The extraordinary advance of science and technology, the changes in fashion, art, music and literature, the rise of feminism, and the changes in the class system are given as much space as the wars and the political struggles at home and abroad. We follow Dr Crippen on his ill-fated attempt to murder his wife and elope with his mistress. We meet the Rector of Stiffkey the ‘prostitutes’ padre’ who died the death of an early Christian martyr in a lion’s cage. We share the excitement of the discovery of radar, and of the structure of DNA, as well as the moral dilemmas of those who pioneered the nuclear bomb. We travel the first half of the twentieth century in the company of the heroic and the discred