TY - BOOK AU - Skidelsky,Robert TI - Britain since 1900: a success story? T2 - Vintage history of Britain 6 SN - 9780099572398 U1 - 941 SKI PY - 2014/// PB - Vintage Books KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 20th century N2 - History, like the present, is always changing. Scholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have generated unprecedented intellectual activity. In the final volume of this history of Britian, Robert Skidelsky takes on the question: how successful was Britiain in the twentieth ER -