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The Strange Death of Liberal England

George Dangerfield

What happened in English politics between the death of Edward VII and the First World War to bring the old Liberal order down?

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Author
George Dangerfield

Why read it

  • You will see how three revolts at once, by Tory diehards, suffragettes and striking workers, shook a confident government before the war
  • You will understand the author's idea that when codes, religions and ideas stop moving forward, people take refuge in shining illusions
  • You will notice how a governing order can look secure even while the ground is giving way beneath it, as Liberal England did

Who it is for

  • A history reader fascinated by the years before the First World War
  • A student of British politics and the suffrage movement
  • Anyone curious how confident governments lose control

Contents

  1. Introduction to the Transaction Edition
  2. Foreword
  3. PART I Their Lordships Die in the Dark
  4. Chapter One THE COMET
  5. Chapter Two THE LIBERALS 1906-1910
  6. Chapter THREE THEIR LORDSHIPS DIE IN THE DARK
  7. PART II Hubris 1911-1913
  8. Chapter One “ANIMULA VAGULA…”
  9. Chapter Two THE TORY REBELLION
  10. Chapter Three THE WOMEN’S REBELLION
  11. Chapter Four THE WORKERS’ REBELLION
  12. PART III The Crisis
  13. Chapter One MUTINY AT THE CURRAGH
  14. Chapter Two THE GUNS OF LARNE
  15. Chapter Three THE PANKHURSTS PROVIDE A CLEW
  16. Chapter Four THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE
  17. Chapter Five SARAJEVO
  18. Chapter Six Buckingham Palace to Bachelor’s Walk
  19. Epilogue
  20. The lofty shade advances,

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