Our Times

A N Wilson

RRP: £25.00

Publisher: HUTCHINSON

Publication Date : 18/09/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

The third in the series, following the bestselling "The Victorians" and "After The Victorians", bringing the reader up to the present day. Beginning in the 1950s, and how Britain had to reinvent itself in the aftermath of the War, moving onto the rise of satire, the Vietnam and Cold War, the Thatcher era and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Publisher's description:

Presents defining events and characters of the modern age, from the Suez crisis to Vietnam, The Beatles to Princess Diana, the miners' strike to the Cold War. This book also features the Angry Young Men, the satirists of Beyond the Fringe, Ruth Ellis and the abolition of hanging, the rise of pop culture and celebrity, and industrial unrest.

ISBN: 9780091796716