The nineties : personal recollections of the 20th century
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The nineties : personal recollections of the 20th century
BBC Books, c1993
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The nearly a quarter of a million people still alive in 1993 who were born in the last century lived through events which most of us consider distant history. This book sets out to bring these events to life again through the memories of some of the oldest living witnesses, as they look back over nearly a century of dramatic change. The 20th century is brought to life in witty and sometimes shocking accounts of a past which has shaped the present world. This past incorporates days out at Blackpool or the races, when the pubs never closed and no one went home until the paypackets had been drunk; astonishing sexual ignorance and daily battles against poverty, disease, dirt and despair, at a time when a woman could be locked away in a mental asylum for having an illegitimate baby; and a world in which sex was an unspoken secret and death part of the common experience. They were days also of the realization of childhood dreams to be missionaries; to serve the Empire and save the poor in strange and dangerous far-away places. The book is a tribute to those who have survived to tell their stories. It ties in with a BBC2 series of eight programmes.
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