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The Children of the New Forest written by Captain Marryat performed by Andrew Sachs on Cassette (Abridged)

The Children of the New Forest written by Captain Marryat performed by Andrew Sachs on Cassette (Abridged)£29.99

Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. “The Children of the New Forest” is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the eng Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley children who are orphaned during the war, and hide from...

The Making of Modern Britain - From Queen Victoria to V.E. Day written by Andrew Marr performed by Andrew Marr on CD (Abridged)

The Making of Modern Britain - From Queen Victoria to V.E. Day written by Andrew Marr performed by Andrew Marr on CD (Abridged)
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ISBN:  9780230713123
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  History
Duration:  420 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Andrew Marr
Narrator 1:  Andrew Marr

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In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace.

The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ‘How should we live?’ Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, the Suffragette movement was taking shape as the popularity of the music hall soared.

It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers and Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs and celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today's Britain can be heard throughout.

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