When the Titanic sank so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history Gareth Russell recasts a tragedy we think we know to explore an era of seismic change. When the Titanic sank so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this... Lees meer.

Max Arthur bestselling author of the hugely popular Forgotten Voices series recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era. Max Arthur bestselling author of the hugely popular Forgotten Voices series recaptures the day-to-day lives of wor... Lees meer.

In the heyday of Empire Lord Cromer was second only to Lord Curzon in fame and public esteem. Using Cromer s official correspondence family papers memoirs and the personal letters the author charts the life of the man revered by the British and hated by Egyptians... Lees meer.

This original and meticulously researched retelling of history s most infamous voyage Denise Kiernan New York Times bestselling author uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity b... Lees meer.

Comfort cake and courting. the tea ceremony in the golden age of tea The Edwardian era was the golden age of etiquette and gentility and the taking of tea was rather like a ceremonial masquerade. At this time it was not uncommon for ladies to change up to five ti... Lees meer.

As a companion to Downton Abbey . . . Maloney s study satisfies . . . a thorough glimpse into the lives of British house servants in the early 1900s. Shelf Awareness UPSTAIRS an Edwardian home would have been a picture of elegance and calm adorned with social gat... Lees meer.

This book of handy hints for the new housewife was first published in the Edwardian era and includes recipes medical advice fashion tips and the dangers that can lurk in the home e.g. the unhealthiness of carpets and the poisonous colours of wallpaper . In this new... Lees meer.

Follow-up to the hit BBC series Victorian Farm Victorian Farm sold over 40 000 copies Nielsen Bookscan figures Includes projects and recipes to try at home Following on from the hit BBC series Victorian Farm this book accompanies a new 12-part BBC series. This time... Lees meer.

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 th... Lees meer.

Black Edwardians reveals the presence of Black people in all walks of life across the British Isles at the height of the imperialist era. This study reveals the presence of black people in all walks of life all over the British Isles at the height of the imperialist... Lees meer.

Mario Praz. Voice Centre Stage is the first collection of essays in English on Italian writer Mario Praz 1896-1982 a central figure of twentieth-century culture and international literary relations. Praz s formidable oeuvre spanned six decades and covered such topic... Lees meer.

Motherhood Respectability Baby-Farming in Victorian Edwardian London explores the largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society.... Lees meer.

This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture placing it in its wider cultural political and imperial contexts This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture placing it in its w... Lees meer.

Citing a social political scientific and artistic revolution that took place between the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and World War I a history of Britain s Edwardian period draws on previously unpublished diaries and letters to challenge current misconceptions.... Lees meer.

Challenges conventional views of the Edwardian period as either a hangover of Victorianism or a bystander to literary modernism In this ground-breaking study Jonathan Wild investigates the literary history of the Edwardian decade. This period long overlooked by c... Lees meer.