A History of Britain, Volume III: The Fate of the Empire 1776 - 2000: The Fate of the Empire 1776 - 2000

London: BBC Worldwide, 2002 9780563488804. Soft cover. First edition. First impression. Fine. Like new. 576 pages including a very detailed index. No annotations or inscriptions etc. Volume III takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy in the form of Romanticism. From there, Simon Schama takes the reader through the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victorian era, and the burgeoning of the British Empire, and he concludes by examining the overwhelming presence of the past in the 20th-Century Britain through the lives of Churchill and Orwell. Moving through the pages of A History of Britain is a succession of big and bold characters that illuminate these historical themes. Wordsworth, Burke, Queen Victoria are all here. But also the less known lives such as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman doctor, 'Mother' Mary Seacole, the forgotten Caribbean nurse and heroine of the Crimea War, and Dadabhai Naoroji, who, in c.1890, became the first Asian MP. .