Talk by Noel Annan
Provost of King's College, Cambridge Fifty years separate the splendour and depravity of King James I's court from the rule of the Saints. In fifty years the England of the Age of Reason turned Victorian. We are now separated by fifty years from the Edwardian era. Noel Annan comments on the unending moral conflict which enlivens English life, in the light of Miss M. Jaeger 's Before Victoria, published on May 31.