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After the Victorians, by A.N. Wilson

It's a history of the UK from the death of Victoria to the coronation of Elizabeth II.

I've been getting into late 19th, early 20th century history because, A. that period is completely glossed over in school, and B. that's when the modern world was beginning to take shape.

  • It focuses on the UK, but it's not just a straight political history. Wilson talks about everything: religion, poetry, the arts, politics, India, the rise of tabloid journalism, science, etc. And Wilson has a very elegant, upper class style to him. It's very dense, yet it flows very well. This isn't beach reading; this is "I want to be contemplative."

    It's also the first book in a long time where I'm actively looking up definitions to words.