Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 900
EAN: 9780141004099
ISBN: 0141004096
Label: Penguin
Manufacturer: Penguin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 752
Publication Date: May 03, 2007
Publisher: Penguin
Studio: Penguin

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Rating: - Great reminder but slow going
This an excellent reminder of life when I moved on from primary school through secondary school years in Leicester. I've said it's slow going because the print size is so small and I can only make progress in good light next to a window..........!

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Rating: - Superb work of political and social history
This is, quite simply, an excellent book. It is extremely well-written, handles its copious source material with panache and is a riveting read. Both 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' perspectives are provided, with lengthy and authoritative chapters dealing with politics and statecraft, consumerism and culture, and wider social issues as well. Britain's wider place in the world - its relations with Europe, the Commonwealth and the USA as well as the developing Cold War backdrop - is examined in detail ... Read More

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Rating: - Not Quite What It Says on the Tin
This is a good book but don't be misled by the dust wrapper - it is not a history of everyday life in Britain in the 1950s. It is basically a political history from 1951 to 1960. If you are looking for descriptions of riding round in Humber Super Snipes or Standard Vanguards, attending the Festival of Britain, reading Eagle comic, buying Spangles "off-ration" in the corner sweet shop or playing with your Hornby Dublo train set you must look elsewhere.

The author never seems to quite ... Read More

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Rating: - Evocative and Insightful
Peter Hennessy's second volume (of an intended five) depicting Britain since the war is vivid mixture of social history and his trademark archival excavations. Despite its reputation as a grey decade, the 50s have been well documented. Much of its subject matter - the last throes of Attlee's post war government; Churchill's last, Eden; Suez and Macmillan as he wrestled with the bomb, Europe, a decaying Empire and the Commonwealth - have been covered by numerous works- not least by Hennessy himself (Secret ... Read More

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