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Modernity Britain - 1957-1962 (Paperback)
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Modernity Britain - 1957-1962 (Paperback)
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This edition collects both volumes of Modernity Britain for the
first time Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the
third volume in David Kynaston's landmark social history of
post-war Britain 'Triumphant ... A historian of peerless
sensitivity and curiosity about the lives of individuals' Financial
Times 'This superb history captures the birth pangs of modern
Britain ... It is a part of Kynaston's huge achievement that such
moments of insight and pleasure should accompany what has become a
monumental history of our recent past' The Times
____________________ David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain
has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments
of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain and through the growing
prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s. Now Modernity
Britain 1957-62 sees the coming of a new Zeitgeist as Kynaston gets
up close to a turbulent era in which the speed of social change
accelerated. The late 1950s to early 1960s was an action-packed,
often dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain began
to take shape. These were the 'never had it so good' years, when
the Carry On film series got going, and films like Room at the Top
and the first soaps like Coronation Street and Z Cars brought the
working class to the centre of the national frame; when CND
galvanised the progressive middle class; when 'youth' emerged as a
cultural force; when the Notting Hill riots made race and
immigration an inescapable reality; and when 'meritocracy' became
the buzz word of the day. In this period, the traditional norms of
morality were perceived as under serious threat (Lady Chatterley's
Lover freely on sale after the famous case), and traditional
working-class culture was changing (wakes weeks in decline, the end
of the maximum wage for footballers). The greatest change, though,
concerned urban redevelopment: city centres were being yanked into
the age of the motor car, slum clearance was intensified, and the
skyline became studded with brutalist high-rise blocks. Some of
this transformation was necessary, but too much would destroy
communities and leave a harsh, fateful legacy. This profoundly
important story of the transformation of Britain as it arrived at
the brink of a new world is brilliantly told through diaries,
letters newspapers and a rich haul of other sources and published
in one magnificent paperback volume for the first time.
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