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Judge an era by its murders. The Edwardian age’s most notorious crime was a conventional, even banal, domestic killing – “the story of a quiet, unassuming man who poisoned his overbearing wife so that he might be with his lover”. The case of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, a failed medical charlatan, became an instant sensation, with all the ingredients that matched the obsessions and diversions of the time: the music hall – Crippen’s American-born wife Cora had trod the boards as “Belle Elmore” – ind
Alwyn Turner takes us on a whistle-stop tour of 1950s Britain: a time of rationing and postwar austerity, but also an era in which exciting new possibilities were blossoming