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Lost Voices of the Edwardians
by
Max Arthur
Combining oral history, rare images, and rediscovered film stills from the turn of the century, this work gives voice to the forgotten figures who peopled the cities, factories, and coasts of Edwardian Britain. This extraordinary period was fueled by a relentless sense of progress and witnessed the invention of many of the technologies now taken for granted. This exciting ...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
September 28th 2007
by HarperCollins UK
(first published 2006)
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In view of cutbacks in education, health care, and threatened pension reductions for public sector employees in today's Britain, this book makes for sober reading. Here the reader hears the voices of people from various walks of life who lived in Britain as it was during the Edwardian Age (1901-1910).
In that era, life for poor and working class Britons was hard, brutish, and usually short. There was no public health service, no pension programs for most employees. Indeed, it was up ...more
In that era, life for poor and working class Britons was hard, brutish, and usually short. There was no public health service, no pension programs for most employees. Indeed, it was up ...more
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Fascinating and vivid. Another essential read in Arthur's series of oral histories.
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Max Arthur is an author who specialises in first-hand recollections of historical events. He has worked closely with the Imperial War Museum to bring together two books in the Forgotten Voices series, Forgotten Voices of the Great War and Forgotten Voices of the Second World War. Prior to becoming a writer, he served with the Royal Air Force and for some years was an actor.
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