The Edwardians

ISBN-13: 9780415061148 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 380 str.

Paul Richard Thompson; Jr. Arthur Thompson; Pau Thompson MR

Opis

Everyone who lived during the reign of Edward VII was an Edwardian, not merely the rich, the literary or the scandalous. In this book, Paul Thompson records the life stories of some 500 Edwardians born between 1872 and 1906 in a pioneering use of oral history, which captures a unique record of their times. Domestics, labourers, skilled and semi-skilled workers, professionals and high society men and women describe their work, their families, their politics and their leisure.

Recenzje

`An ambitious and exciting enterprise.' - Times Literary Supplement

`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.' - Times Educational Supplement

`Quite the most readable and illuminating piece of historical sociology to have been published in a long time.' - The Observer

O autorze

Mr Paul R Thompson, Paul Thompson