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Thirties
As Wartime did for the 1940s this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and diaries newspapers periodicals books and the range of rich material available in the British Library. J.B. Priestley famously described the three Englands he saw in the 1930s: Old England nineteenth-century England and the new post-war England. Thirties Britain was indeed a land of contrasts at once a nation rendered hopeless by the Depression unemployment and international tensions yet also a place of complacent suburban home-owners with a baby Austin in every garage. Now Juliet Gardiner acclaimed author of the award-winning Wartime provides a fresh perspective on that restless uncertain ambitious decade
bringing the complex experience of thirties Britain alive through newspapers magazines memoirs letters and diaries. Gardiner captures the essence of a people part-mesmerised by modernism in architecture art and the proliferation of dream palaces by the cult of fitness and fresh air the obsession with speed the growth and regimentation of leisure the democratisation of the countryside the celebration of elegance glamour and sensation. Yet at the same time this was a nation imbued with a pervasive awareness of loss -- of Britains influence in the world of accepted political social and cultural signposts and finally of peace itself.
bringing the complex experience of thirties Britain alive through newspapers magazines memoirs letters and diaries. Gardiner captures the essence of a people part-mesmerised by modernism in architecture art and the proliferation of dream palaces by the cult of fitness and fresh air the obsession with speed the growth and regimentation of leisure the democratisation of the countryside the celebration of elegance glamour and sensation. Yet at the same time this was a nation imbued with a pervasive awareness of loss -- of Britains influence in the world of accepted political social and cultural signposts and finally of peace itself.
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