For “England” in the title we may also read Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Although the Oxford History of England series is now very dated, this volume being published as far back as 1936, it is an ideal book for a lay reader like myself. It is well organised, covering such aspects of Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth Century British history as the legislation introduced by the governments of Gladstone, Disraeli, Salisbury, Rosebery, Balfour, Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith, economic progress, developments in a wide range of areas such as education, literature, ideology, costume, and the crises in foreign affairs preceding the First World War. The style is lucid and it is a pleasure to read older books of this ilk which are written in grammatically accurate English, which contrasts very much with some of the newer works in the field of historiography. There are also seven helpful maps and a list of the government cabinets of this period.Read full review
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