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Buxton International Festival

David Cannadine

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906Spiegeltentbutton--dates-and-timesDates & Times

Self-belief and fragility

Historian David Cannadine takes a look at the British nineteenth century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice – an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one, with revolutions in transport, communication and work, cities growing vast; and scientific ideas making the intellectual landscape unrecognisable. This was a country which saw itself at the summit of the world. And yet it was a society also convulsed by doubt, fear and introspection – a time at once strangely familiar and yet wholly unlike our own.

  • Duration: 1hr
  • Price: £11