Little Englanders by Alwyn Turner review – portrait of a poignant interlude in British history | History books
Alwyn Turner is known for writing wittily about recent eras of British history, with popular culture placed to the fore. Here, he delves further back in time, to that poignant interlude between the death of Queen Victoria and the start of the first world war, when a sort of stodgy calm coexisted with a growing sense of insecurity that seems, in retrospect, entirely justified.His description of the man who gave his name to the era provides a foretaste of his droll style. Edward VII was “a very different proposition” to his…