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

Compilation by Joanna Bourke & Tim Pigott-Smith

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Introduction
    2:06
  2. 2.
    The Beginning of the Boer War
    1:46
  3. 3.
    Home Front
    5:13
  4. 4.
    Popular Sentiment and Rudyard Kipling
    2:06
  5. 5.
    Ireland and the Boer War
    2:30
  6. 6.
    Dissenting Voices
    1:08
  7. 7.
    The Siege of Ladysmith
    2:01
  8. 8.
    The Siege of Kimberley
    2:08
  9. 9.
    Defeats at Magersfontein, Colenso and Spion Kop
    8:19
  10. 10.
    The Relief of Ladysmith
    1:19
  11. 11.
    The Siege of Mafeking
    6:40
  12. 12.
    The Relief of Mafeking
    4:55
  13. 13.
    Guerrilla Tactics
    5:06
  14. 14.
    Atrocity at Christmas
    3:03
  15. 15.
    The Blockhouse System; The Burning of Boer Farms; Concentration Camps
    6:38
  16. 16.
    Peace and the Treaty of Vereeniging
    2:41
  17. 17.
    Imperial Disillusionment
    2:58
  18. 18.
    The Death of the Queen
    5:40
  19. 19.
    Funeral Procession on the Solent
    2:36
  20. 20.
    Funeral Procession in London
    4:56
  21. 21.
    The End of an Era
    1:30

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Introduction
    4:51
  2. 2.
    Science and Superstition
    2:33
  3. 3.
    The First Transatlantic Wireless Message
    4:42
  4. 4.
    The German Threat and the Kaiser
    4:00
  5. 5.
    Protective Tariffs
    3:04
  6. 6.
    New Liberalism
    1:32
  7. 7.
    Poverty
    4:31
  8. 8.
    Poverty and State Intervention
    3:50
  9. 9.
    Boy Scouts
    4:26
  10. 10.
    Education in a Slum School
    4:33
  11. 11.
    Education at Home
    7:43
  12. 12.
    Women at University
    2:48
  13. 13.
    Female Suffrage: The Pankhursts and Their Admirers
    5:30
  14. 14.
    Militancy and Arrest
    4:37
  15. 15.
    A Militant Suffragette
    6:08
  16. 16.
    Forcible Feeding
    2:24
  17. 17.
    Suffragettes and Suffragists
    4:37
  18. 18.
    The Pageant of Great Women
    2:29

Disc 3

  1. 1.
    Introduction: More Edwardian London
    3:51
  2. 2.
    Clothes and Respectability
    2:45
  3. 3.
    Punishment
    2:16
  4. 4.
    The Moral Code
    2:48
  5. 5.
    Religious Influence
    1:23
  6. 6.
    Temperance
    1:09
  7. 7.
    Social Classes and Spiritual Dictators
    1:49
  8. 8.
    The Parish as the Hub of Social Life
    3:09
  9. 9.
    Muscular Christianity and Cricket
    4:11
  10. 10.
    Olympic Games 1908
    4:25
  11. 11.
    Edward Elgar
    5:13
  12. 12.
    Amateur Concerts
    2:01
  13. 13.
    Bicycles and Fairs
    3:07
  14. 14.
    Cornish Tin-Miner
    2:14
  15. 15.
    Alcohol
    1:42
  16. 16.
    Domestic Service
    4:12
  17. 17.
    The Theatre in Rural Areas
    1:56
  18. 18.
    The Theatre in London
    5:51
  19. 19.
    Music Hall and Marie Lloyd
    5:30
  20. 20.
    The Motor Car
    2:41
  21. 21.
    Powered Flight and Science Fiction
    2:13
  22. 22.
    First Channel Flight
    4:12
  23. 23.
    Revolution in Politics 1909
    5:20
  24. 24.
    Death of the King
    0:43

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