The New Statesman
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Alwyn Turner’s page-turner of a popular history of the period reminds us just how uncanny are the parallels with Britain in the early 2020s .
Both eras follow the death of a long-lived Queen and a trend for self-indulgent consumerism has followed a period of abstinence.
Both societies are marked by apocalyptic culture.
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era Alwyn Turner Profile Books , 400pp, 25 .
Edwardian Britain has been well served by historians, including David Cannadine , Simon Heffer and Roy Hattersley .
But Turner ’s specialty, as in his books about modern Britain , is using popular culture to squint at everything else.
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