Yesterday's Britain

Author(s)

• Porter, Dilwyn
• Bastable, Jonathan
• Reader's Digest Association

Bibliographic Information

Yesterday's Britain

Reader's Digest ; [authors: Dilwyn Porter ... et al. ; editor, Jonathan Bastable]

Reader's Digest Association, c1998

1st ed

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Takes a journey back through time to discover and re-discover the changing lives of the British during the 20th century. Personal anecdotes, eyewitness accounts and intimate stories create a "family history" of the British people, accompanied by over 600 illustrations and photographs.

Table of Contents

• 1900-1919 in the good old days
• 1920-1929 a land fit for heroes
• 1930-39 the threadbare thirties
• 1939-1945 a country goes to war
• 1945-1949 the austerity years
• 1950-1959 never had it so good
• 1960-1969 power to the people
• 1970-1979 a nation in search of a role
• 1979- epilogue.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB08092160
• ISBN:
  • 0276423917
• LCCN: 99492086
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 320 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DA566.4
  • DC21 : 941.082
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Pictorial works
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Pictorial works
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- History -- 20th century