Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee By Peter Ackroyd

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"Ackroyd, as always, is well worth the read." —Kirkus, starred reviewDominion, the fifth volume of Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England, begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to a post-war depression and ends with the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.Spanning the end of the Regency, Ackroyd takes readers from the accession of the profligate George IV whose government was steered by Lord Liverpool, whose face was set against reform, to the ‘Sailor King’ William IV whose reign saw the modernization of the political system and the abolition of slavery. But it was the accession of Queen Victoria, at only eighteen years old, that sparked an era of enormous innovation. Technological progress—from steam railways to the first telegram—swept the nation and the finest inventions were showcased at the first Great Exhibition in 1851. The emergence of the middle-classes changed the shape of society and scientific advances changed the old pieties of the Church of England, and spread secular ideas among the population. Though intense industrialization brought booming times for the factory owners, the working classes were still subjected to poor housing, long work hours, and dire poverty. Yet by the end of Victoria’s reign, the British Empire dominated much of the globe, and Britannia really did seem to rule the waves.

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Peter Ackroyd always has had the knack for writing solid yet very readable popular history. Over the years I've enjoyed his books on London and Shakespeare, and the History of England series. Ackroyd has the talent for choosing just the right quotation and just the right amusing or poignant anecdote to illustrate a point.That's why I feel that he let me down with Dominion: The History of England From the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. This book only covers England during the nineteenth century, but there's an impression that the author was in a hurry to finish or simply got lazy. There is a scatter-shot quality to the book. Ackroyd could have improved his presentation tremendously if he had used a different organization, maybe dividing the work into multi-chapter, chronological or topical sections.Too much space is devoted to prime ministers and their personalities, and even this more thorough information suffers from disorganization which weakens the book and is somewhat confusing. London's East End in the late nineteenth century is, for better or worse, strongly identified in the popular mind with the Jack the Ripper case; Ackroyd provides some broader factual information about the East End, and barely mentions these sensational murders in context. Yet he spends a whole chapter on Oscar Wilde. And it's an account of England in this time period named for its queen, but Victoria is mentioned almost superficially.I would not discourage anyone from reading Ackroyd's Dominion. He's a good writer and a competent historian, and Lord knows, we need readable histories that will entice more people to take an interest in history. But I think Dominion is more suited to readers with a bit of familiarity with nineteenth-century England rather than someone coming to its study for the first time.

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