The Making of Modern Britain
Written by Andrew Marr
Narrated by Andrew Marr
3/5
()
About this audiobook
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, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while 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 ring from almost every page.
Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr is a former editor of The Independent and BBC Political Editor. He currently hosts BBC 1’s Andrew Marr Show, and presented Radio 4’s Start the Week from 2005 to 2012. His acclaimed television documentary series include Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain and Andrew Marr’s The Making of Modern Britain. He is a hugely successful non-fiction author, and his first novel, Head of State will be published in 2014.
More audiobooks from Andrew Marr
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A History of the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Making of Modern Britain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA History of Modern Britain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Trade: A Short History of British Journalism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Making of Modern Britain
Related audiobooks
A History of Modern Britain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Short History Of England (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAll the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Visitor's Guide to Georgian England Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Island Race Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Debs at War: How Wartime Changed Their Lives, 1939-1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Orwell Tour: Travels through the life and work of George Orwell Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life of the Author: John Milton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistory Of France, 1000 years Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEnglish Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A House Through Time Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLives of Houses Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mystery of Charles Dickens Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Life of Samuel Johnson Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Isles Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cranford Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Blest Genius: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare 2nd Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDiary of Samuel Pepys Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
European History For You
The War on the West Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Project MK-Ultra: The History of the CIA’s Controversial Human Experimentation Program Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ancient Mythology: An Extensive Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Worship, Rituals and Beliefs of Ancient Myths Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Napoleon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ghost Map Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Reformation: A History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Templars: The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Professor and The Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Teutonic Knights: A Military History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for The Making of Modern Britain
1 rating0 reviews