The history of England. Volume vi, Innovation / Peter Ackroyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--England--History.

Social change.

History.

England--Social life and customs.

England.

Manners and customs.

Great Britain--History--20th century.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 500 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Innovation

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Innovation, the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, takes readers from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later. 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 twentieth 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. A vividly readable, richly peopled tour de force, it is Peter Ackroyd writing at the height of his powers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The sun never rises

2. Home sweet home

3. The lie of the land

4. Plates in the air

5. The most powerful thing

6. Demands for reform

7. The Terrible Twins

8. What happened to the gentry?

9. Car crazy

10. Little hammers in their muffs

11. The Orange card

12. The black sun

13. Forced to fight

14. The regiment of women

15. The clock stops

16. England's Irish question

17. Gay as you like

18. Labour at the summit

19. Where is the match?

20. Get on, or get out

21. Crash

22. The rituals of suburbia

23. Now we can have some fun

24. The country of the dole

25. The Fasci

26. The bigger picture

27. The Spanish tragedy

28. This is absolutely terrible

29. The alteration

30. The march of the ants

31. Would you like an onion?

32. The pangs of austerity

33. The cruel real world

34. An old world

35. The washing machine

36. Plays and players

37. Riots of passage

38. North and south

39. Elvis on a budget

40. This sporting life

41. Old lace and arsenic

42. The new brutalism

43. The soothing dark

44. In place of peace

45. Bugger them all

46. The first shot

47. The fall of Heath

48. The slot machine

49. Let us bring harmony

50. Here she comes

51. The Falklands flare-up

52. The Big Bang

53. The Brighton blast

54. Was she always right?

55. Money, money, money

56. The curtain falls

57. The fall of sterling

58. One's bum year

59. Put up or shut up

60. The moral abyss

61. A chapter of accidents

62. The unhappy year

63. The princess leaves the fairy tale.

Notes:

First published in Great Britain by Macmillan as a set, complete in 6 volumes, under the common title: The history of England; Innovation is volume 6 in that series.

Originally published in Great Britain by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan.

First published in the United States by St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781250003669

1250003660

OCLC:

1227086929