Innovation
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-2022
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'Innovation' 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 20th century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades. 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 end of the post-war slump to the technicolour explosion of the 1960s, to free love and punk rock and from Thatcher to Blair.
Main title:
Innovation / Peter Ackroyd.
Author:
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2022.
Collation:
x, 500 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm.
Series title:
History of England ; volume VI.
Notes:
Originally published: 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781509896738 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
93588