High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain

by Simon Heffer

Book Overview

Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind.

Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen and her prime minister, and the ruling class lived in fear of riot and revolution. By the 1880s it was a confident nation of progress and prosperity, transformed not just by industrialisation but by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099558475
• ISBN13: 9780099558477
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 896 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 5.1" x 7.7"