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Timothy Western reads the third and concluding volume of award-winning historian Simon Schama's compelling chronicle of the British isles Isles. Here he illuminates the period from 1776 to 2000 through a number of historical designs, including Victorian developments in technology and industry, women's increasing role in contemporary society, and the burgeoning English Empire which guaranteed civilisation and materials betterment for everyone. This size also looks at key individuals from the period, including Wordsworth, Burke, Queen Victoria, Churchill, and Orwell, whilst analyzing some lesser-known lives, such as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first girl doctor, and Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse in the Crimea. Finally, Schama reflects on the overpowering presence of days gone by in the 20th century, and the have difficulty of our market leaders to discover a way of making a different countrywide future.