Simon Heffer

After Queen Victoria, the flood

Alwyn Turner draws on popular culture to show how violent protest and unrest followed the old queen’s death, making nonsense of the fabled Edwardian ‘golden summer’

Caricature of John Bull, distracted from the arguments of a suffragist by the action of the suffragettes. [Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images]

  • Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

    Alwyn Turner

    Profile, pp. 416, £25

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