The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 By Simon Heffer

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‘A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times‘A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.’ Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V’s coronation and the London’s great Edwardian palaces.Yet things were very different below the surface. In The Age of Decadence Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation’s massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century’s gravest constitutional crisis and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history. He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists’ public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press and the science fiction of H. G. Wells, but also the Arts and Crafts of William Morris and the nostalgia of A. E. Housman. And he concludes with the crisis that in the summer of 1914 threatened the existence of the United Kingdom – a looming civil war in Ireland.He lights up the era through vivid pen-portraits of the great men and women of the day – including Gladstone, Parnell, Asquith and Churchill, but also Mrs Pankhurst, Beatrice Webb, Baden-Powell, Wilde and Shaw – creating a richly detailed panorama of a great power that, through both accident and arrogance, was forced to face potentially fatal challenges.‘A devastating critique of prewar Britain . . . disturbingly relevant to the world in which we live.’ Gerard DeGroot, The Times‘You won’t put it down . . . A really riveting read.’ Rana Mitter, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking

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As I read this marvelous book, I pondered whether in its case “TMI” might stand for “too much information” or “this magnificent interpretation.” There’s an awful lot to this account of the late-Victorian-Edwardian periods of British history and it is understandable that a reader might, for instance, tire a bit of the author’s detailed description of the perpetually insoluble “Irish question.” On the other hand, the depth and breadth of the scholarship that underpin the book leave the reader thoroughly satisfied that the author left no stone unturned in his treatment of the period. “Age” reminded me both of David Kynaston’s magisterial modern British history triad of “Austerity Britain,” et al. and Judith Flanders’ “Inside the Victorian Home,” hands-down one of my top-ten reads of the last many years. All share their respective authors’ enviable knowledge of their subjects, a wonderfully direct and lucid writing style, and an instinctive feel for what their readers want – and need – to know about the matters treated.Among other things, “Age” puts paid to the common perception that the late-Victorian-Edwardian periods emblemized the relentless progress of social equality, educational opportunity and societal harmony. Heffer’s accounts of the labor unrest of the 1880’s that culminated in the near-fatal economic doldrums of the 1970’s and of women’s struggle for the vote make the present-day confrontations between “antifa” and the “alt-right” look like community garden disputes about appropriate plantings.Don’t take my word for it. If you have the time and the interest to navigate this truly enviable work of modern History, do yourself a favor and order it without delay. As for me, I have already received the author’s preceding work, “High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain.” I don’t think reading either out of order will lessen the pleasure in doing so.

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