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A Journey Through Ruins - The Last Days of London (Paperback)
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A Journey Through Ruins - The Last Days of London (Paperback)
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A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's
rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the
country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East
London. Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished
tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic,
its cast of characters includes council tenants trapped in
disintegrating tower blocks, depressed gentrifiers worrying about
negative equity, metal detectorists, sharp-eyed estate agents and
management consultants, and even Prince Charles. Cutting through
the teeming surface of London, it investigates a number of wider
themes: the rise and dramatic fall of council housing, the coming
of privatization, the changing memory of the Second World War, once
used to justify post-war urban development and reform but now seen
as a sacrifice betrayed. Written half a century after the blitz,
the book reviews the rise and fall of the London of the post-war
settlement. It remains one of the very best accounts of what it was
like to live through the Thatcher years.
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