The Edwardian era saw the creation of mass leisure, the suffrage movement, and the beginnings of world war. Life in Edwardian Britain wasn't all fun and games. The Siege of Sydney Street, in East ...

The Edwardian era — as highlighted in the award-winning PBS series “Downton Abbey” — will be the focus of a new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art. “Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the ...

The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914. By Simon Heffer. Random House Books; 897 pages; £30. IN the late Victorian and early Edwardian period of 1880-1914, at least (see article), Britain had a ...

This article supplements Fascism, a Slate Academy. To learn more and to enroll, visit Slate.com/Fascism. Excerpted from Hurrah for the Blackshirts!: Fascists and ...