Portland Public Library

The history of England, Peter Ackroyd, Volume VI

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-473) and index

contains biographical information

platesillustrations

index present

non fiction

The history of England

bibliography

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Peter Ackroyd

The history of England, 6

"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

The sun never rises -- Home sweet home -- The lie of the land -- Plates in the air -- The most powerful thing -- Demands for reform -- The Terrible Twins -- What happened to the gentry? -- Car crazy -- Little hammers in their muffs -- The Orange card -- The black sun -- Forced to fight -- The regiment of women -- The clock stops -- England's Irish question -- Gay as you like -- Labour at the summit -- Where is the match? -- Get on, or get out -- Crash -- The rituals of suburbia -- Now we can have some fun -- The country of the dole -- The Fasci -- The bigger picture -- The Spanish tragedy -- This is absolutely terrible -- The alteration -- The march of the ants -- Would you like an onion? -- The pangs of austerity -- The cruel real world -- An old world -- The washing machine -- Plays and players -- Riots of passage -- North and south -- Elvis on a budget -- This sporting life -- Old lace and arsenic -- The new brutalism -- The soothing dark -- In place of peace -- Bugger them all -- The first shot -- The fall of Heath -- The slot machine -- Let us bring harmony -- Here she comes -- The Falklands flare-up -- The Big Bang -- The Brighton blast -- Was she always right? -- Money, money, money -- The curtain falls -- The fall of sterling -- One's bum year -- Put up or shut up -- The moral abyss -- A chapter of accidents -- The unhappy year -- The princess leaves the fairy tale

Innovation