Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence
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Kensington housewife Ada Reece and writer and thinker Rudyard Kipling share their diaries.
Ada watches Queen Victoria's funeral while Rudyard Kipling worries about the Boer War.
The Aliens Immigration Act is passed and Ada's relationship with her husband deteriorates.
Lloyd George pushes through his historic People's Budget.
Ada Reece and Kipling rejoice as George V is crowned, but clouds of war are gathering.