The story of Britain - and the world - in the first half of the 20th century, as seen from the perspective of the debaters of the Oxford Union, the world's most famous debating society. It vividly captures the debates on subjects such as empire, world war, revolution and women, and includes some influential voices - Winston Churchill to Archbishop Temple, Edward Heath to Tony Benn.
The story of Britain - and the world - in the first half of the 20th century, as seen from the perspective of the debaters of the Oxford Union, the world's most famous debating society. It vividly captures the debates on subjects such as empire, world war, revolution and women, and includes some influential voices - Winston Churchill to Archbishop Temple, Edward Heath to Tony Benn.
A member of the Oxford Union in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford, in the years since Edward Pearce has had a long and distinguished career as a Parliamentary sketch writer for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman and as a columnist for the Guardian and the Scotsman, with intermittent appearances as a theatre critic throughout. He is the author of many books on politics and current affairs, including Looking Down on Mrs Thatcher (1987), The Quiet Rise of John Major (1991), and a biography of Denis Healey (2002). Over the last decade, he has increasingly turned to history writing, with biographies of Sir Robert Walpole and Pitt the Elder and, most recently, Reform!: The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act (2010).
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Introduction Early Days 1: Our Empire 1896-1899 2: South Africa - Last, Late Prize 1899-1900 3: Chamberlain and Milner at War 1901-1905 4: Enter the Liberals 1905-1908 5: 'The Whole University Marching Down the High in Uniform' 1909-1910 6: Mourning their Lordships, Worrying about Women 1911 7: Wales, Women, and Balkan War 1912-1913 8: On the Eve 1913-1914 9: The Threshold of the New 1919-1921 10: The Consequences of the Peace 1921-1922 11: The Rather Circumspect New World 1922-1925 12: Imperial Fatigue and New Clouds 1926-1930 13: The Old Familiar Faces 1930-1935 14: We go into the Dark 1935-1940 15: The Sunlit Uplands Almost 1945-1949 16: All Sorts of Dangerous Modern Ideas 1949-1951 17: The Old Order Not Changing Very Much 1951-1955 18: Invading Countries is Wrong 1955-1956 Envoi
Introduction Early Days 1: Our Empire 1896-1899 2: South Africa - Last, Late Prize 1899-1900 3: Chamberlain and Milner at War 1901-1905 4: Enter the Liberals 1905-1908 5: 'The Whole University Marching Down the High in Uniform' 1909-1910 6: Mourning their Lordships, Worrying about Women 1911 7: Wales, Women, and Balkan War 1912-1913 8: On the Eve 1913-1914 9: The Threshold of the New 1919-1921 10: The Consequences of the Peace 1921-1922 11: The Rather Circumspect New World 1922-1925 12: Imperial Fatigue and New Clouds 1926-1930 13: The Old Familiar Faces 1930-1935 14: We go into the Dark 1935-1940 15: The Sunlit Uplands Almost 1945-1949 16: All Sorts of Dangerous Modern Ideas 1949-1951 17: The Old Order Not Changing Very Much 1951-1955 18: Invading Countries is Wrong 1955-1956 Envoi
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