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Captures the essence of the era in a lively study of its politics, personalities, technical innovations, arts and preoccupations.

Anecdotes and descriptions of social and political life in England, Ireland and Scotland during the reign of Edward 7th (1901-1910.).

England 1900 - Education - Clothes - Mrs Pankhurst - Photographs.

The Edwardian age stands in a pivotal position between the ninetheenth century and the twentieth. Professor Hynes sees the brief stretch of history between the death of Quen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War not as a golden age but as a time of waiting, a time of anxieties, a time of conflict between the old and new. A growing awareness of social problems resulted not in action but in worry, not in solutions but in feelings and in...