{"product_id":"innovation-the-history-of-england-volume-vi-9781250003669","title":"Innovation: The History of England Volume VI","description":"\u003cp\u003eInnovation  the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyds magnificent History of England series  takes readers from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.  Innovation brings Peter Ackroyds History of England to a triumphant close. Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century  when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades.  It was a century of enormous change  encompassing two world wars  four monarchs (Edward VII  George V  George VI and the Queen)  the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the Labour Party  womens suffrage  the birth of the NHS  the march of suburbia and the clearance of the slums. It was a period that saw the work of the Bloomsbury Group and T.S. Eliot  of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin  from the end of the post-war slump to the technicolor explosion of the 1960s  to free love and punk rock  and from Thatcher to Blair.  A vividly readable  richly peopled tour de force  Innovation is Peter Ackroyd writing at the height of his powers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789760323637,"sku":"ByrdShop_1250003660","price":32.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781250003669.jpg?v=1784696883","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/innovation-the-history-of-england-volume-vi-9781250003669","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}