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Innovation

The History of England Volume VI

Pocket
Engelsk
The History of England
Innovation
Innovation
  • Forfatter: Peter Ackroyd
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 512
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: The History of England
  • EAN: 9781509896738
  • Utgivelsesår: 2022
  • Bidragsyter: Ackroyd, Peter
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<p><b>‘</b><b>Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman</b><b>’ </b><b>– </b><b>Ian Thomson, </b><i><b>Independent </b></i><br><br><i>Innovation</i> brings Peter Ackroyd’s History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades. <br><br>A century of enormous change, encompassing two world wars, four monarchs (Edward VII, George V, George VI and the Queen), the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the Labour Party, women’s suffrage, the birth of the NHS, the march of suburbia and the clearance of the slums. It was a period that saw the work of the Bloomsbury Group and T. S. Eliot, of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, of the e