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Informationen zum Autor W. Sydney Robinson is an award-winning author! broadcaster and journalist. After studying History at the University of Manchester from 2004 to 2007! he proceeded to Cambridge! where he is currently a Research Associate of Wolfson College. His first book! Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead! Britain's First Investigative Journalist (Robson Press! 2012) was awarded the Political Biography of the Year award at the Total Politics and Paddy Power Awards 2013. He writes occasionally in the Sunday Times! the Spectator and the TLS. He has recently been appointed a teacher at Rugby School. Klappentext Daring group biography of a handful of British eccentrics who kept Victorian values alive in the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung W. Sydney Robinson returns with this brilliant exploration of four Victorian eccentrics. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTSIntroduction ixChapter 1 The Policeman of the Lord: Sir William Joynson-Hicks at the Home Office 1Chapter 2 The Gloomy Dean: Dr Inge of St Paul's 67Chapter 3 Lord Protector of the Airwaves: The Parallel Lives of Lord Reith of Stonehaven 131Chapter 4 This England: The Island Story of Sir Arthur Bryant 203Acknowledgements 279Endnotes 283Index 297
