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How It Was - Memories of Growing Up in the 1930s, '40s and '50s (Hardcover)
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How It Was - Memories of Growing Up in the 1930s, '40s and '50s (Hardcover)
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In How it Was Howard Temperley describes growing up at a time of
expanding opportunity and rapid social change. Like others of his
generation he experienced the poverty of the 1930s and the social
dislocations of war. For him, however, the war proved a liberating
experience. As an evacuee he spent three glorious years more or
less running wild in the Lake District. Back in the urban North
East and bored by schoolwork he took refuge in reading, drawing and
wildfowling. It was, therefore, a great surprise when, halfway
through his second Sixthform year and in spite of a hitherto
mediocre school record, Oxford awarded him an open scholarship. In
his later chapters he describes his adventures as an improbable
cavalry officer, Oxford undergraduate and Yale postgraduate,
touching along the way on his encounters with English snobbery and
American affluence. With a sharp eye for detail and a gift for
writing, he paints a vivid picture of what it was like to belong to
that upwardly-mobile generation who, thanks to the 1944 Butler Act
and other changes in social policy, were granted educational
opportunities far greater than had been dreamed of by their parents
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