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After ten years of austerity the early 1950s saw rationing draw to an end. Gathered together in this colourful creation of over 1 000 products & images The 1950s Scrapbook conjures up the life & times of the decade. From the Festival of Britain & the Coronation of Elizabeth II to the abundance of toys & television programmes every facet of the era is covered. Memorable & evocative The 1950s Scrapbook illustrates an extraordinary period of British history from rationing to rock'n'roll from Archie Andrews to the Mini Minor. It was a time when self-service shopping was a novelty frozen foods a wonder & detergents like Tide Daz & Omo were the latest whirl for the washing machine. The flowing fashions were styled from nylon or Terylene the space age was full of Dan Dare & children watched the antics of Muffin the Mule Hank or Andy Pandy. Decision time for girls was simpler
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1953 Essex Flood
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On a stormy evening in January 1953 Peggy Morgan kissed her five-year-old son goodnight blissfully unaware of the impending catastrophe. Before sunrise the next morning the North Sea had destroyed her home & Peggy was a childless widow. There had been no prediction no warning. Men women & children lost their lives in Essex on that fateful night & the lives of survivors were changed forever. The lucky ones awoke when ice-cold seawater burst through their doors & windows. Those not so lucky slept on towards death. This book captures in the words of the survivors the essence of life in the low-lying coastal areas before the disaster. Those who lived tell how with dogged determination they prevailed against unimaginable adversity: their stories of courage & fortitude are told simply & without self pity. & for the first time those who died have their story told. Illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs the awe-inspiring & heartrending stories of survivors & victims of the 1953 Essex floods are told here for the first time. ...
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1960s Childhood
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Do you remember Beatlemania? Radio Caroline? Mods & Rockers? The very first miniskirts? Then the chances are you were born in or around 1960. To the young people of today the 1960s seems like another age. But for those who grew up in this decade school life mod fashions & sixties pop music are still fresh in their minds. From James Bond to Sindy dolls & playing hopscotch in the street life was very different to how it is now. After the tough & frugal years of the fifties the sixties was a boom period a time of changed attitudes & enhanced lifestyles. With chapters on home & school life games & hobbies music & fashion alongside a selection of charming illustrations this delightful compendium of memories will appeal to all who grew up in this lively era. Take a nostalgic look at what it was like to grow up during the sixties & recapture all aspects of life back then. ...
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1960s East End
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Do you remember playing in streets free of traffic? Dancing to the Beatles? Watching a man land on the Moon on TV? Waking up to ice on the inside of the windows? If the answer is yes then the chances are that you were a child in the 1960s. This delightful compendium of memories will appeal to all who grew up in the East End during the Swinging Sixties. With chapters on games & hobbies school & holidays this wonderful volume is sure to jog memories for all who remember this exciting decade. ...
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1960s Scrapbook
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The Sixties will be remembered for mini skirts & mini cars The Beatles & The Rolling Stones boutiques & discotheques & England winning the World Cup. But The 1960s Scrapbook also covers much more with its 1400 colourful items. Television gripped the nation with Coronation Street & The Likely Lads while children were entertained by the Darlecks Thunderbirds & The Man from Uncle. Twiggy became the fashion icon & the E-type jaguar the motoring aspiration for men. James Bond was the spy to emulate & the space race caught everyones imagination including a vast range of space toys. There are now ten Scrapbooks in this series covering the Victorian era up to the 1970s plus the Royal Scrapbook. Together they form an invaluable resource of popular culture & lifestyle. ...
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1963 That Was The Year
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A compendium of milestone stories & watershed events in popular culture national & international politics from 1963 including: The Beatles first No 1 The coldest winter since 1740 Martin Luther Kings I Have a Dream speech The Great Train Robbery The Profumo Affair Ian Brady & Myra Hindleys killings The first woman in Space Valentina Tereshkova James Bond becomes an international phenomenon 70 000 protest against nuclear weapons in London Harold Wilsons election & the onset of new politics & satire The assassination of JFK The BBC launch of Doctor Who ...
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1970s Childhood
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Do you remember flares cheesecloth shirts & chopper bikes? What about space hoppers? If you do then it sounds like you were lucky enough to grow up during the 1970s. Who could forget all the glam rock bands of that era like Slade Wizard & Mud or singers like Alvin Stardust Marc Bolan & David Bowie? What about those wonderful TV shows like Starsky & Hutch Kojak & Happy Days? Fashion included platform shoes (we all had a pair) flared trousers brightly patterned shirts with huge collars & colourful kipper ties. & everyone remembers preparing for power cuts & that long hot summer of 1976. For anyone looking to relive their youth in the 1970s this compendium of memories is just the ticket. Following on from the wildly popular A 1950s Childhood & A 1960s Childhood those of us from this memorable decade can also take a nostalgic & hilarious trip down memory lane. ...
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1970s Scrapbook
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Full of pop punk & personalities The 1970s Scrapbook sways through this energetic era on platform shoes to the beat of glam rock & disco mania. Teenyboppers screamed for their idols whether David Cassidy David Essex The Osmonds Bay City Rollers or Abba. Colour television brought it all to life with a mixture of comedy from The Good Life to Fawlty Towers. Much of the TV action came from the USA featuring Kojak Starsky & Hutch & the stunt riding of Evel Knievel. For children animals came to life with the Muppet Show & the Wombles while in space new horizons were beamed up with Star Trek & Star Wars on the big screen. Amongst all this fervour Britain had been set the mathematical challenge of decimalisation in 1971 & then in 1977 the celebrations came for the Queens Silver Jubilee. ...
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1970s Teenager
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What was it like being a teenager in a world without computers smartphones DVD players games consoles or the Internet? Imagine a time when sharing music meant taking a record round to your friends house; when making a quick phone call could involve queuing outside a red telephone box! This book looks at the fads & fashions music hobbies & TV programmes which defi ned the 70s for many youngsters. If you remember riding a chopper reading Jackie during the Winter of Discontent or watching the Bay City Rollers on Top of the Pops during the long hot summer of 1976; this book is for you. A 1970s Teenager is a nostalgic & colourful account of what it was like to be young in the most exciting decade of all! ...
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1960s Omnibus

A brand new Agatha Christie omnibus bringing together all four stand-alone novels she wrote in the 1960s and early 70s - Endless Night By the Pricking of My Thumbs Passenger to Frankfurt and her last book Postern of Fate. Agatha Christie's imaginative crime novels and thrillers made her a household name from the 1920s right through to her final books in the early 1970s. Best known as the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple her prolific output would bring her publisher William Collins at least one book every year. Twenty of her contemporary crime novels were to feature neither Poirot or Marple instead a wide range of ingenious plots would be played out by a selection of amateur sleuths professional detectives young adventuresses or unwary bystanders caught up in unforeseen
events. This collection of five omnibuses gathers together the twenty stand-alone novels presenting them chronologically and providing a fascinating window on a changing world though six decades of investigation. Presented in this way recurring characters - including Superintendent Battle Tommy and Tuppence Beresford Colonel Johnny Race and Ariadne Oliver - rub shoulders with many who would appear only in one book and the result is a selection of some of the finest mystery writing ever. Here is the answer to the question of what Agatha Christie might have been had she not invented Poirot or Marple - and the answer undoubtedly is still The Queen of Crime!
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A brand new Agatha Christie omnibus bringing together all four st&-alone novels she wrote in the 1960s & early 70s
- Endless Night By the Pricking of My Thumbs Passenger to Frankfurt & her last book Postern of Fate. Agatha Christie's imaginative crime novels & thrillers made her a household name from the 1920s right through to her final books in the early 1970s. Best known as the creator of Hercule Poirot & Miss Jane Marple her prolific output would bring her publisher William Collins at least one book every year. Twenty of her contemporary crime novels were to feature neither Poirot or Marple instead a wide range of ingenious plots would be played out by a selection of amateur sleuths professional detectives young adventuresses or unwary bystanders caught up in unforeseen events. This collection of five omnibuses gathers together the twenty st&-alone novels presenting them chronologically & providing a fascinating window on a changing world though six decades of investigation. Presented in this way recurring characters
- including Superintendent Battle Tommy & Tuppence Beresford Colonel Johnny Race & Ariadne Oliver
- rub shoulders with many who would appear only in one book & the result is a selection of some of the finest mystery writing ever. Here is the answer to the question of what Agatha Christie might have been had she not invented Poirot or Marple
- & the answer undoubtedly is still The Queen of Crime!

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