The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

The Edwardian era saw a general continuation of the styles that had prevailed at the end of the nineteenth century. Service (1975: 485) describes the period as “dualistic”, combining a nostalgic golden image of wealthy country house owners and garden parties with a period of “intense social strife” recognised in the Suffragette Movement, the rise of the Trades Unions and the Miners’ Strike of 1911.