Edwardian period

Cultural  

1. A time in twentieth-century British history; the first decade of the century, when Edward VII, the eldest son of Queen Victoria, was king. The Edwardian period was known for elegance and luxury among the rich and powerful in Britain but also for moral looseness and for a general failure to prepare for some of the challenges of the twentieth century — particularly World War I, which broke out four years after the death of King Edward.

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Example Sentences

Described as a "charming" Arts and Crafts influenced building, it is also a "particularly good example of the bungalow-with-veranda form of sports building which epitomised the late Victorian and Edwardian period".

From BBC

“Although our kit has an early Bible and the box is earlier, it appears to have been assembled around the Edwardian period in England,” he said.

From Seattle Times

Boris Johnson, with his calculated disheveled and absent-minded demeanor, came across in particular as a character actor in an Edwardian period drama, literally making his small splash by swimming out from the deserted beach to a rock with a broad opening in it, returning to declare it a metaphor for Brexit.

From The Guardian

“The political papers have been studied before but what has been seen of the personal correspondence was heavily edited in the Edwardian period,” said William Frame, head of modern archives and manuscripts at the British Library.

From The Guardian

I’ll reference the complex production of the song “A Cover is Not the Book,” that involves mixing hand-drawn animation, digital and practical effects and some wildly colorful costumes plucked from the Britain’s Edwardian period.

From Washington Times