Little EnglandersIn 'Little Englanders', Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change, with the rise of women's suffrage and the labour movement, unrest in Ireland and the Boer republics, scandals in parliament and culture wars at home. He tells the story of the Edwardians through music halls and male beauty contests, the real Peaky Blinders and the 1908 Summer Olympics. In this colourful, detailed and hugely entertaining social

Churchill called Henry 'a gleam of splendour in the dark

Within these pages are brief and pithy character portraits of the game's great and good

recreating the experience of walking a labyrinth

an affair takes hold that they are powerless to resist

with the word 'FEMINA' annotated beside them

From a 1977 candidate pool of 8

the way technology adapted with steamships to telegraph cables

Fiddling with her mascara

The three quickly become inseparable

even her life

learned from fifteen years travelling through one hundred countries

she is pulled out of the sea and strung up on the dock as a trophy