Buy this book on-line ARTHUR**, MAX: : LOST VOICES OF THE EDWARDIANSLONDON.HAPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS,2006. ISBN 007216130.
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Max Arthur's compilation of memories from
the turn of the century recaptures the day-to-day lives of people living through a fascinating period of transformation and landmark events. Arthur,bestselling author of the hugely popular 'Forgotten Voices of the Great War' - see my book ID rja449013 for an example - and 'Forgotten Voices of the Second World War',has assembled hundreds of excerpts from private and public archives of Britain.
Miners,millworkers,postmen,actresses,soldiers, bricklayers,shipbuilders,farm hands, seamstresses,footballers,and children working hard both in the factory and the schoolroom - all give rich and moving testimony of their day-to-day lives.
The extraordinary first decade of the 20thC was fuelled by a relentless sense of progress.
Scientific research brought new inventions - the first manned flights,public transport,and the noisy new motor car - and great strides in the battle for better health.The extremes of the upstairs-downstairs world prompted a huge upsurge in political activity and the advancement of the suffragette movement,whilst holidays and leisure time became a reality for ordinary people.The years captured in these pages are made all the more poignant by our knowledge that the First World War was imminent and this time of optimistic development,along with the lives of so many,would be brutally cut short.
'Lost Voices of the Edwardians' combines oral history and mesmerizing images,including stills from the rediscovered Mitchell and Kenyon film footage from the turn of the century.This remarkable collection gives voice to the forgotten figures that peopled the cities, factories and seasides of Edwardian Britain.
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