26th October 2013 |
The early 20th Century is a curious time in history for women, sex and power. Queen Victoria’s reign only just made it in to the century, and the Great War was about to change everything forever. So just what was Edwardian Britain really like? To find out for Harrogate’s first History Festival, Salon North is taking a lateral look at the years before the war.
To draw us an extremely watchable picture we have author and broadcaster Jessica Fellowes. Author of the Sunday Times bestsellers ‘The World of Downton Abbey’ and ‘The Chronicles of Downton Abbey’ - nobody knows the arena of the hit TV show more than Jessica. For Salon North she will be looking at Great Britain through the prism of the series, how the characters and storylines explore and explain the social history, and even the psychology of the early 20th Century.
We also have music specialist Ellen Loudon who holds a doctorate in popular music making her practically a Professor of Pop Music (surely the best title in the academic world.) Ellen will be giving a historical audio and visual tour of the music of the period, and demonstrating whatever music you enjoyed in the early 1900s - whether upstairs, downstairs or in trade – it’s influence would come through the music hall.
We are also very pleased to have Lucinda Hawksley, author, biographer and great-great-great grand-daughter of Charles Dickens. Lucinda has made an almost scientific study of the actions of women undertook in this period to secure the right to vote. At Salon North to explain and give context to the women’s movements, their terrorist actions, and their treacherous betrayal by governments including Churchill himself, Lucinda’s work perfectly illustrates the temperature of the times.
Come explore the years before the Great War with Salon North.
