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Author : Mr Paul R Thompson,Paul Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134926770
'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
Author : Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 1848222688
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.
Author : Jeffrey Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136318238
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.
Author : John Boynton Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005348144
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.
Author : Roy Hattersley
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780349143071
Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in domestic service. The habits and sports of the aristocracy were an everyday indulgence. But it was an age of invention as well as tradition. It saw the first widespread use of the motor car, the first aeroplane and the first use of the telegraph. It was also a time of vastly improved education and the public appetite for authors such as Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and E. M. Forster was increased by greater literacy. There were signs too, of the corner history was soon to turn, with the problematic Boer War hinting at a new British weakness overseas and the drive for Votes for Women and Home Rule for Ireland pushing the boundaries of the social and political landscape. In this major work of history, Roy Hattersley has been given exclusive access to many new documents to produce this magisterial new appraisal of a legendary age.
Author : Morna O'Neill,Michael Hatt
Publisher : Yc British Art
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211740837
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.
Author : Anne Gray
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015060092056
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.
Author : Kirsty Hooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789621327
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.
Author : Helen C. Long
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0719037298
Illustrates how Edwardian houses were built, how they were used, and what they meant at the time.
Author : Karsten Keuchler
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640742752
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...
Author : Max Arthur
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0007216149
Max Arthur, bestselling author of the hugely popular Forgotten Voices series, recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era.
Author : Anita Leslie
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015011727362
Author : Vanessa Toulmin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715526
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.
Author : Thora Hands
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319929644
This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the drink industry and by increasingly restrictive licensing laws. Politics and commerce co-existed with moral and medical concerns about drunkenness and combined, these factors pushed alcohol consumers into the public spotlight. Through an analysis of public and private records, medical texts and sociological studies, the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ideas about alcohol that circulated in the period. This book shows that they had many reasons for purchasing and consuming alcoholic substances and these were driven by broader social, cultural, medical and commercial factors. Although drunkenness may have been the most visible consequence of alcohol consumption, it was not the only type of drinking behaviour. Alcohol played an important social role in the everyday lives of Victorians and Edwardians where its consumption held many different meanings.
Author : Roy Hattersley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780349143071
Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in domestic service. The habits and sports of the aristocracy were an everyday indulgence. But it was an age of invention as well as tradition. It saw the first widespread use of the motor car, the first aeroplane and the first use of the telegraph. It was also a time of vastly improved education and the public appetite for authors such as Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and E. M. Forster was increased by greater literacy. There were signs too, of the corner history was soon to turn, with the problematic Boer War hinting at a new British weakness overseas and the drive for Votes for Women and Home Rule for Ireland pushing the boundaries of the social and political landscape. In this major work of history, Roy Hattersley has been given exclusive access to many new documents to produce this magisterial new appraisal of a legendary age.