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Peter Clarke is Professor of Modern British History and Master of Trinity Hall College, Cambridge. He has written several major books on aspects of British political history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including The Keynesian Revolution in the Making 1924-1936 and A Question of Leadership.
Britain scored a century of dramatic years between 1900 and 2000. Peter Clarke recounts the rises and falls, the hopes and aspirations of Britons as they encountered good times and bad. And, as he does so, he reveals a very human picture of a nation which began the twentieth century as a world empire but which then had to grow comfortable with a sudden shift in status. Clarke's grasp of society, the imperial and the homely, make this book a classic of social history. Not shy of boisterous opinions, he charts a course through the swings and roundabouts of political life in transitional Britain but never loses track of the impact change had on ordinary people. Packed with fact and anecdote, it's not always a merry but it is a faithful guide to everything you really need to know about twentieth-century Britain and today's Britons. (Kirkus UK)
