The Golden Talking-Shop: The Oxford Union Debates Empire, World War, Revolution, and Women

ISBN-13: 9780198717249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 688 str.

Edward Pearce

Opis

The story of Britain-and the world-in the first half of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of the world's most famous debating society. A vivid, sometimes piquant, picture of a Britain that is now passing from living memory-and a powerful reminder of the ways in which the past really is a foreign country.

Recenzje

well-informed, brisk, and irreverent framing of "our young barbarians, still at play" from Mafeking to Suez.

O autorze

A member of the Oxford Union in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford, the late Edward Pearce had a long and distinguished career as a Parliamentary sketch writer for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman, and as a columnist for the Guardian and the Scotsman. He made intermittent appearances as a theatre critic throughout, and was one of the original panellists on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze. He is the author of many books on politics and current affairs, including Looking Down on Mrs Thatcher (1987), The Quiet Rise of John Major (1991), and a biography of Denis Healey (2002). Over the last decade, he increasingly turned to history writing, with biographies of Sir Robert Walpole and Pitt the Elder and Reform!: The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act (2010).