With Andrew Marr, Katie Hardwick. Apparently, "the Edwardians had richer internal lives than most of us today", which seems an odd thing for an historian to say. The advice by Andrew Marr to look up at the shop front he intended for the urban British audience rings true for urban Australian audiences equally. 2 of 2 people found this review helpful. The message, for those who chose to think about it, was that Germany was down but not out - defeated but not reconciled.”“My dream is that by returning to our not-so-distant history, I might remind readers why, with all its faults, this is a lucky place to be living in, and one we can be quietly proud of.”

Great if you're interested in politics, but maybe boring for those who really want to "feel" what life was like in the U.K.. Marr alludes to a lot of other works though that would give a more "real" life account of life, such as Orwell's "Down and Out in London and Paris" (which is brilliant btw), or the diaries of Mike Duffey. From Paxman's excoriating of the British Empire to Ian Hislop's documentary series on the Victorians it seems that everyone wants to show that they understand our past and to put their stamp on it. My difficulty was that it's assumed the reader is already at least aware of the names and events, probably having been brought up in the UK. The mask of neutrality slips only in odd comments about the 21st century, which reveal someone who probably rejoiced at Blair's decision to go to war against those evil Muslims ('fundamentalists' all, apparently).The author literally summarizes other history books. I don't know what made me pick it up now but I did enjoy it. Upon the recommendation by a London couple who I met over breakfast at my B&B in Conwy, I hit up the closest Waterstone’s store in the Bloomsbury’s neighborhood where I was staying once I got to London, and decided upon Marr’s book asNothing’s sweeter than a great work of historical scholarship about a country that you’re currently visiting. The title was rather misleading for the first time, with statement that the book will cover the time of Queen Victoria, yet in truth, only started with her death. Please support us if you can by making a donation. It's the stuff of headlines.Journalists' take on history often err on the sensational and so it is no great surprise this book appears to go for impact. As good as the TV programme but without Andrew doing his accents! The Great Migration was the movement of six million African Americans out of the South to urban areas in the Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1...A wonderfully gripping read - in fact it got better and better the more I read, and towards the end I was galloping along, hooked in with fascination and pleasure.A wonderfully gripping read - in fact it got better and better the more I read, and towards the end I was galloping along, hooked in with fascination and pleasure.I really enjoyed this book, more than I expected to.

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain Episodes Episode guide. In the procesAn excellent and wide-ranging study of this period, revealing once again the strengths of Andrew Marr's journalistic training. Good objective account of modern British history from approx 1900 to today. It primarily focuses on the political developments (not surprising considering Marr's job) with much less emphasis on the cultural and social aspects. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The Making of Modern Britain. Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged. Really?The Edwardian stuff is most interesting, followed by the 20s and 30s. Being a two-volume set which accompanies a BBC series (which I have not watched but plan to), this first book explores the events that take place roughly in the first half of the 20th century, and the changes that Britain went through because of them. Contains an interesting review of the political landscape of Britain in the 1930s, I was well aware of Mosley's blackshirts but had never heard of the green shirts or the Social Dividend movement. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I was living in Waterloo in Sydney at the time and nights out usually involved walking home from the city. The two things I felt the author did well were firstly to try to give readers a feel of the times and what it was like to be living through them and secondly the way he drew attention to the fact that other histories and our collective memory choose to highlight certain events and ignore others that seemed equally important at the time. It gave plenty of information I hadnt known before and explored some key historical figures in more depth. It's a refreshingly honest approach and makes Marr less a presenter riding a bandwagon than an amateur historian whose day job happens to be that of a presenter.This was a thoroughly fascinating look at the UK particularly England especially the role of the Edwardians. What also emerges is a sense that the country had exhausted its energy and ability by the end of the Nineteenth Century and was rapidly being overtaken by other countries, such as the USA and Germany, more able to adapt to the changing nature of Twentieth Century economic and political reality. I was living in Waterloo in Sydney at the time and nights out usually involved walking home from the city.

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