About the Book
In the early 1970s, the author spoke to 500 Edwardians who had been born between 18721906: domestics, labor-ers, skilled and semi-skilled workers, professionals and socialites from all parts of Britain describe their work, their leisure, their political attitudes and their environments at a time of critical social change.
Reviews
"An ambitious and exciting enterprise."TLS
"Superb."Sunday Telegraph
"Quite the most readable and illuminating piece of historical sociology to have been published in a long time."The Observer
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