New Elizabethans

 

★★★★★

'Fascinating'

TV Times

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In 1945 Britain emerged victorious from the struggle with Nazi Germany - but found itself in an utterly new world. As US Secretary of State Dean Acherson said, "Britain has lost an empire - and not yet found a role." As its territories disappeared overseas the UK was rocked by social unrest, race riots, and a profound national identity crisis. What sort of nation was Britain to be? 

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This is the extraordinary story of how the UK redrew its politics and remerged as a factory of ideas and culture. Focusing on the "New Elizabethans", key social figures during the reign of Elizabeth II, it rediscovers extraordinary forgotten stories and reveals a nation carving out a new place for itself on the global stage. Not a nation that set out to change other cultures, but one that - for the first time - was actively changed by them.

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