The Edwardians

The Edwardians

Cast: Robert Powell, Timothy West, Judy Parfitt, Nigel Davenport, Virginia McKenna and Anthony Hopkins.
Director: John Howard Davies
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 400 minutes

The Edwardians, an eight-part British miniseries from 1972 that looks at nine influential personalities from that Belle Epoque 'way-station' period in British history, the Edwardian Era, which fell between the advancements and glories of the Victorian Age, and the utter destruction wreaked by the First World War.

The people chronicled in The Edwardians include Charles Rolls and Frederick Royce, Horatio Bottomely, E. Nesbit, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Baden-Powell, Marie Lloyd (and other greats from Britain's classic 'music hall' days), Daisy Greville, and David Lloyd George.

The Edwardians