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Second City - Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain (Paperback)
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Second City - Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain (Paperback)
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List price R496
Loot Price R453
Discovery Miles 4 530
You Save R43 (9%)
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A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'There is unlikely to be a
fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinen's'
Jonathan Coe, Financial Times 'Vinen has written a history of
Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also,
perhaps, a theory of England. I buy it' Daily Telegraph For over a
century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England. In
his richly enjoyable new book Richard Vinen captures the drama of a
small village that grew to become the quintessential city of the
twentieth century: a place of mass production and full employment
that began in the 1930s, but which came to a cataclysmic halt in
the 1980s. Birmingham has also been a magnet for migration, drawing
in people from Wales, Ireland, India, Pakistan and the Caribbean.
Indeed, much of British history can be explained, in large measure,
with reference to Birmingham. Vinen roots his sweeping story in the
experience of individuals. This is a book about figures everyone
has heard of, from J. R. R. Tolkien to Duran Duran, and also about
those that everyone ought to have heard of. It captures the ways in
which hundreds of thousands of people - from the Welsh miners who
poured into the car factories in the 1930s to the young women who
danced to reggae in the basement of Rebecca's nightclub in the
1980s - were caught up in the convulsions of social change.
Birmingham is not a pretty place, and its history does not always
make for comfortable reading. But modern Britain does not make
sense without it.
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