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19 September 2019
352 pages
9781509881321
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

A masterful assessment of a period that saw change in every area of life
It is Ackroyd’s depiction of an anxious society in the grip of rapid change – industrialisation, fast urbanisation, the impact of the railway and the electric telegraph – that is the most riveting … fascinating
Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman
Ackroyd is a fascinating mix of a nineteenth-century narrative historian and modern social analyst