ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Fin-De-Siècle Britain as an imperial centre, and considers some of the reasons for those expressions of anxiety. While most suffrage activists were Liberals, Emmeline Pankhurst had attempted to forge links with the Labour movement, and Sylvia Pankhurst became as committed to socialist politics as to women’s suffrage, leading the East London Federation of Suffragettes. The realm of culture did not float free of the political and social concerns of the period. Popular culture in the sense of that which was enjoyed by the working-class majority of the population was something else again. Britain continued in this period to be a major manufacturing economy, though the second industrial revolution saw the United States and Germany make major advances. The war in South Africa was not just a modern, industrial one in terms of the means with which it was fought, then, but also in terms of the way in which it was relayed to the non-combatants at home.
