Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. England in 1886
1: Nationalism and Nationality
2: Generation and Gender
3: Social Identities
4: Governance and Politics
Part II. Late Victorian England 1886-1899
5: Home Rule and the Politics of Unionism
6: The Social Question: Conflict and Stability 1886-1899
7: Politics and the Social Question 1886-1899
8: Uneasy Dominion: Britain under Challenge
9: The Boer War 1899-1902
Part III. Edwardian England
10: The Unionist Project 1902-1905
11: The Liberal Party and Social Welfare Politics
12: The Years of 'Crisis' 1908-1914
13: The Road to War
Part IV. Leisure, Culture, and Science
14: The Pursuit of Pleasure
15: Art and Culture
16: Science and Learning
Part V. The Great War
17: The Loss of Innocence 1914-1916
18: Tragedy and Triumph 1916-1918
19: The Patriotic Experience
20: War and the Reshaping of Identities
Chronology
List of Cabinets and General Elections
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

This book deserves to become a standard work. It is reliable, lucid, even-handed and up-to-date ... Nowhere has Edwardian social history been so revealingly synthesised. The Spectator A masterful, lucidly written and well proportioned survey over the whole range of national life. Paul Smith, Times Literary Supplement This is a marvellous book in its breadth, its comprehensiveness and, given its length, the enormous pleasure it has been to read. Necessarily a work of synthesis, it efficiently weaves together telling quotes, examples and statistics to conjure up the late Victorian and Edwardian world. Peter Catterall, History Today