HG Wells<\/h3>\n<\/div> ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> HG Wells (Photo by \u00a9 Hulton-Deutsch Collection\/CORBIS\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nIf Edwardian Britain was slowly emerging from Victoria\u2019s long reign and unsure of its new, developing identity, the writer HG Wells was already gazing far into the future. For while his non-fiction output was impressively prolific, it was his science fiction novels that made Wells his name, foretelling of future 20th-century developments such as space travel and nuclear bombs.<\/p>\n
- On the podcast |\u00a0Unexpected Edwardians<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>
In both his fiction and non-fiction, Wells investigated contemporary social problems and ills, deliberating on the means with which to cure them. A futurist and utopian, novels like 1905\u2019s A Modern Utopia<\/em> attempted to provide a framework for a new way of living. Other works speculated on notions such as time travel (The Time Machine<\/em>) and alien invasions (The War of the Worlds<\/em>).<\/p>\nAfter the gritty social realism of Victorian novelists like Charles Dickens<\/a>, such flights of fantasy, conceived in the safety of suburbia, offered Edwardian readers a sense of escapism; a portal into other ways of being.Winston Churchill<\/h3>\n<\/div> ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> Winston Churchill (aged 26) (Photo by Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nAlthough his greatest achievements would come with World War II, Winston Churchill<\/a> was already a notable public figure by the time of Edward VII<\/a>\u2019s coronation, as both a celebrated war correspondent and Conservative MP. He defected to the Liberals in 1904 and subsequently held a number of cabinet posts, including first lord of the Admiralty, a role he was holding when World War I broke out.Walter Tull<\/h3>\n<\/div> ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> Walter Tull (Photo by Walter Tull Archive\/Finlayson Family Archive\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nBorn to a Barbadian carpenter father and an English mother, Walter Tull became one of the very first mixed-race footballers to play in English football<\/a>\u2019s top tier. He also became a soldier in the British Army who saw action at the battle of the Somme.<\/p>\nTull\u2019s parents had both passed away before his 10th birthday and he was placed in an orphanage in east London. There he developed a love for football and went on to play for local non-league side Clapton, before being headhunted by Tottenham Hotspur in the First Division of the Football League.<\/p>\n
But following sustained racial abuse from opposition fans (at Bristol City, the vernacular used by the locals was described as being \u201clower than Billingsgate\u201d), Tull dropped down the leagues to sign for Northampton Town in 1911. Three years later, he enlisted in the army, rising through the ranks before being killed in the final year of World War I.
4<\/span> Emmeline Pankhurst<\/h3>\n<\/div> ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> Emmeline Panklhurst (Photo by \u00a9 Hulton-Deutsch Collection\/CORBIS\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nIf a new century and a new monarch heralded a bright, reshaped future, Emmeline Pankhurst had a strong idea of what that shape should be. In Manchester in 1903 she and her daughter Christabel established the Women\u2019s Social and Political Union (WSPU) to further the cause of women in society, most conspicuously by attempting to secure their right to vote.<\/p>\n
- On the podcast | The Suffragettes: everything you wanted to know<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>
The WSPU\u2019s tactics appeared out of step with genteel, polite Edwardian society. Pankhurst and the union advocated the deployment of militant, direct action to force the issue onto the political agenda of the day. Focusing on \u201cdeeds, not words\u201d, the suffragettes often operated beyond the law, undertaking acts of arson and violence to get noticed.<\/p>\n
Some might say that Pankhurst\u2019s tactics were extreme, but they led, in 1918, to the first British women (those 30 or older who met certain property qualifications) being finally able to go the polls.
5<\/span> Ernest Rutherford<\/h3>\n<\/div> ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> Ernest Rutherford (Photo by Interim Archives\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nBorn in New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford became chair of physics at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1907. The following year he won the Nobel Prize<\/a> (for chemistry), and would later come to be regarded as the godfather of nuclear physics, creating the first artificial nuclear reaction in 1917.Beatrix Potter<\/h3>\n<\/div> ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>If Edwardian Britain was slowly emerging from Victoria\u2019s long reign and unsure of its new, developing identity, the writer HG Wells was already gazing far into the future. For while his non-fiction output was impressively prolific, it was his science fiction novels that made Wells his name, foretelling of future 20th-century developments such as space travel and nuclear bombs.<\/p>\n
- On the podcast |\u00a0Unexpected Edwardians<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>
In both his fiction and non-fiction, Wells investigated contemporary social problems and ills, deliberating on the means with which to cure them. A futurist and utopian, novels like 1905\u2019s A Modern Utopia<\/em> attempted to provide a framework for a new way of living. Other works speculated on notions such as time travel (The Time Machine<\/em>) and alien invasions (The War of the Worlds<\/em>).<\/p>\n
After the gritty social realism of Victorian novelists like Charles Dickens<\/a>, such flights of fantasy, conceived in the safety of suburbia, offered Edwardian readers a sense of escapism; a portal into other ways of being.
2<\/span>Winston Churchill<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Winston Churchill (aged 26) (Photo by Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n Although his greatest achievements would come with World War II, Winston Churchill<\/a> was already a notable public figure by the time of Edward VII<\/a>\u2019s coronation, as both a celebrated war correspondent and Conservative MP. He defected to the Liberals in 1904 and subsequently held a number of cabinet posts, including first lord of the Admiralty, a role he was holding when World War I broke out.
3<\/span>Walter Tull<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Walter Tull (Photo by Walter Tull Archive\/Finlayson Family Archive\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n Born to a Barbadian carpenter father and an English mother, Walter Tull became one of the very first mixed-race footballers to play in English football<\/a>\u2019s top tier. He also became a soldier in the British Army who saw action at the battle of the Somme.<\/p>\n
Tull\u2019s parents had both passed away before his 10th birthday and he was placed in an orphanage in east London. There he developed a love for football and went on to play for local non-league side Clapton, before being headhunted by Tottenham Hotspur in the First Division of the Football League.<\/p>\n
But following sustained racial abuse from opposition fans (at Bristol City, the vernacular used by the locals was described as being \u201clower than Billingsgate\u201d), Tull dropped down the leagues to sign for Northampton Town in 1911. Three years later, he enlisted in the army, rising through the ranks before being killed in the final year of World War I.
4<\/span>Emmeline Pankhurst<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Emmeline Panklhurst (Photo by \u00a9 Hulton-Deutsch Collection\/CORBIS\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n If a new century and a new monarch heralded a bright, reshaped future, Emmeline Pankhurst had a strong idea of what that shape should be. In Manchester in 1903 she and her daughter Christabel established the Women\u2019s Social and Political Union (WSPU) to further the cause of women in society, most conspicuously by attempting to secure their right to vote.<\/p>\n
- On the podcast | The Suffragettes: everything you wanted to know<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>
The WSPU\u2019s tactics appeared out of step with genteel, polite Edwardian society. Pankhurst and the union advocated the deployment of militant, direct action to force the issue onto the political agenda of the day. Focusing on \u201cdeeds, not words\u201d, the suffragettes often operated beyond the law, undertaking acts of arson and violence to get noticed.<\/p>\n
Some might say that Pankhurst\u2019s tactics were extreme, but they led, in 1918, to the first British women (those 30 or older who met certain property qualifications) being finally able to go the polls.
5<\/span>Ernest Rutherford<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Ernest Rutherford (Photo by Interim Archives\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n Born in New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford became chair of physics at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1907. The following year he won the Nobel Prize<\/a> (for chemistry), and would later come to be regarded as the godfather of nuclear physics, creating the first artificial nuclear reaction in 1917.
6<\/span>Beatrix Potter<\/h3>\n<\/div>
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- On the podcast | The Suffragettes: everything you wanted to know<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>
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