The Golden Talking-Shop by Edward Pearce
The story of Britain - and the world - in the first half of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of the world's most famous debating society. A vivid, sometimes piquant, picture of a Britain that is now passing from living memory - and a powerful reminder of the ways in which the past really is a foreign country.
terrific * Oxford Today *
a valuable contribution to social history * Trubune *
a valuable contribution to social history * Trubune *
A member of the Oxford Union in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford, in the years since Edward Pearce has had a long and distinguished career as a Parliamentary sketch writer for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman and as a columnist for the Guardian and the Scotsman, with intermittent appearances as a theatre critic throughout. He is the author of many books on politics and current affairs, including Looking Down on Mrs Thatcher (1987), The Quiet Rise of John Major (1991), and a biography of Denis Healey (2002). Over the last decade, he has increasingly turned to history writing, with biographies of Sir Robert Walpole and Pitt the Elder and, most recently, Reform!: The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act (2010).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198717232 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198717237 |
| Title | The Golden Talking-Shop |
| Author | Edward Pearce |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2016-10-27 |
| Number of pages | 690 |
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