Dancelife
Eyewitness, 1900-1909: A History of the Twentieth Century in Sound
2004

CD 1
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Introduction 2:06
2 The Beginning of the Boer War 1:46
3 Home Front 5:13
4 Popular Sentiment and Rudyard Kipling 2:06
5 Ireland and the Boer War 2:30
6 Dissenting Voices 1:08
7 The Siege of Ladysmith 2:01
8 The Siege of Kimberley 2:08
9 Defeats at Magersfontein, Colenso and Spion Kop 8:19
10 The Relief of Ladysmith 1:19
11 The Siege of Mafeking 6:40
12 The Relief of Mafeking 4:55
13 Guerrilla Tactics 5:06
14 Atrocity at Christmas 3:03
15 The Blockhouse System; The Burning of Boer Farms; Concentration Camps 6:38
16 Peace and the Treaty of Vereeniging 2:41
17 Imperial Disillusionment 2:58
18 The Death of the Queen 5:40
19 Funeral Procession on the Solent 2:36
20 Funeral Procession in London 4:56
21 The End of an Era 1:30
Total time 75:19
CD 2
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Introduction 4:51
2 Science and Superstition 2:33
3 The First Transatlantic Wireless Message 4:42
4 The German Threat and the Kaiser 4:00
5 Protective Tariffs 3:04
6 New Liberalism 1:32
7 Poverty 4:31
8 Poverty and State Intervention 3:50
9 Boy Scouts 4:26
10 Education in a Slum School 4:33
11 Education at Home 7:43
12 Women at University 2:48
13 Female Suffrage: The Pankhursts and Their Admirers 5:30
14 Militancy and Arrest 4:37
15 A Militant Suffragette 6:08
16 Forcible Feeding 2:24
17 Suffragettes and Suffragists 4:37
18 The Pageant of Great Women 2:29
Total time 74:18
CD 3
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Introduction: More Edwardian London 3:51
2 Clothes and Respectability 2:45
3 Punishment 2:16
4 The Moral Code 2:48
5 Religious Influence 1:23
6 Temperance 1:09
7 Social Classes and Spiritual Dictators 1:49
8 The Parish as the Hub of Social Life 3:09
9 Muscular Christianity and Cricket 4:11
10 Olympic Games 1908 4:25
11 Edward Elgar 5:13
12 Amateur Concerts 2:01
13 Bicycles and Fairs 3:07
14 Cornish Tin-Miner 2:14
15 Alcohol 1:42
16 Domestic Service 4:12
17 The Theatre in Rural Areas 1:56
18 The Theatre in London 5:51
19 Music Hall and Marie Lloyd 5:30
20 The Motor Car 2:41
21 Powered Flight and Science Fiction 2:13
22 First Channel Flight 4:12
23 Revolution in Politics 1909 5:20
24 Death of the King 0:43
Total time 74:41



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