| The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 | |
| Author: | Simon Heffer |
| Orig Lang Code: | en |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Random House |
| Pub Date: | 2017 |
| Pages: | 912 |
| Isbn: | 978-1-84794-742-0 |
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 is a 2017 book by the English historian Simon Heffer. It has been published in the United States as The Age of Decadence: A History of Britain 1880–1914.[1]
Simon Heffer chronicles the late Victorian era of British history. He portrays it as a decadent period, where an increasingly incompetent establishment wasted the prosperity and disintegrated the social structures that previous generations had struggled to build up.[2] [3] [4]