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The Edwardians: everything you wanted to know

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Is the Edwardian Era Really Long?

The rise of the labor movement, suffragette movement and pan africanism are key trademarks. This was an era of swagger, opulence, self belief, bit of arrogance. But underneath that, there was this fear of imperial decline,. A decline in thso of british stock, if you like, and the rise of eugenics. So a kind of paradoxical age as well.

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