England in the Eighteen Eighties

<p>First published in 1945 this volume compares the theoretical panic and practical confusion of its present time to that of the eighteen-eighties and looks to it for direction and inspiration. Following the decade the <i>Reynolds’ Newspaper</i> commented that Eighteen seventy-nine is gone and we all have reason to be thankful that it is now only a record. The decade faced challenges in agriculture a bitter parliament war on two continents stagnant commerce and changing social norms. 1879 in particular was a year combining more circumstances of misfortune and depression than any within general experience at the time. Then as in 1945 there was a new sense of being in the dark surrounded by the unknown. H.M. Lynd hoped to gain some insight into possible directions of change from a study of this critical period.</p>