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Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Paperback, UK ed.)
Series: Tales of a New Jerusalem
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List price R545
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Discovery Miles 4 590
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As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate
and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed
Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and
rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy
Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her
children in Chingford; and, the self-absorbed civil servant Henry
St John perfects the art of grumbling. These and many other voices
give a rich, unsentimental picture of everyday life in the 1950s.
We also encounter well-known figures on the way, such as Doris
Lessing (joining and later leaving the Communist Party), John
Arlott (sticking up on Any Questions? for the rights of
homosexuals) and Tiger's Roy of the Rovers (making his goal-scoring
debut for Melchester). All this is part of a colourful, unfolding
tapestry, in which the great national events - the Tories returning
to power, the death of George VI, the Coronation of Queen
Elizabeth, the Suez Crisis - jostle alongside everything that gave
Britain in the 1950s its distinctive flavour: Butlin's holiday
camps, Kenwood food mixers, "Hancock's Half-Hour", Ekco television
sets, Davy Crockett, skiffle and teddy boys. Deeply researched,
David Kynaston's "Family Britain" offers an unrivalled take on a
largely cohesive, ordered, still very hierarchical society
gratefully starting to move away from the painful hardships of the
1940s towards domestic ease and affluence.
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