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To are in 19th-century Britain was to see an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the individual experience. There were revolutions in move, communication and work; places grew huge; and clinical ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognisable. This was an exciting time but also a horrifying one. In his amazing new book, David Cannadine has created a bold, amazing new interpretation of the English 19th century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice. This was a country which observed itself at the summit of the world. And yet it was a society also convulsed by uncertainty, fear and introspection. Repeatedly, politicians and authors noticed themselves to be looking in to the abyss - and what's seen sometimes viewed as a time of aggravating self-belief was used obsessed by a sense of its own fragility, whether as a great ability or as a moral drive. Victorious Hundred years is an extraordinarily enjoyable book - its publisher attracts the relish, humour and theatricality of the age but also the dilemmas of a kind with which we remain familiar today. It reframes a period at once strangely familiar yet wholly unlike our own.
