Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Tables; Introduction; The Victorian inheritance; The mid-century years; After equipoise: urban problems, 1870 1900; Industrial change and the countryside, 1830 1951; The challenge from the left; Edwardian England and the Liberal reforms; The Great War, 1914 18; The inter-war years, 1918 39; War and the coming of the Welfare State; Envoi; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.