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The People - The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010 (Paperback)
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The People - The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010 (Paperback)
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List price R411
Loot Price R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
You Save R74 (18%)
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'There was nothing extraordinary about
my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect
of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and
continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade.
Eventually I realised I would have to write this history myself.'
What was it really like to live through the twentieth century? In
1910 three-quarters of the population were working class, but their
story has been ignored until now. Based on the first-person
accounts of servants, factory workers, miners and housewives,
award-winning historian Selina Todd reveals an unexpected Britain
where cinema audiences shook their fists at footage of Winston
Churchill, communities supported strikers, and where pools winners
(like Viv Nicholson) refused to become respectable. Charting the
rise of the working class, through two world wars to their fall in
Thatcher's Britain and today, Todd tells their story for the first
time, in their own words. Uncovering a huge hidden swathe of
Britain's past, The People is the vivid history of a revolutionary
century and the people who really made Britain great.
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