Innovation

The History of England Volume VI

Peter Ackroyd

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English

Macmillan
08 February 2022

History; British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history

Series: The History of England

'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent

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, Innovation is Peter Ackroyd writing at his considerable best.

By: Peter Ackroyd
Imprint: Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 49mm
Weight: 792g
ISBN: 9780230706446
ISBN 10: 0230706444
Series: The History of England
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 08 February 2022
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography and the History of England series. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.