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From Queen Victorias journal entry for 1 January 1900, (full of anxiety & fear of what may be before us!) to MP Oona Kings lament at spending the end of the millennium in a queue, Elboroughs compilation presents personal, contemporary and candid responses to world history as it happened. The book features over 100 diarists and provides one or more writers reaction to every major event or trend, whether a world war, the 1975 Europe Referendum or the latest Star Wars movie.
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- PublisherMichael O Mara Books Limited LBS UK
- Publication date2017
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing events but also the domestic and personal moments of those who lived through it.The book draws on over one hundred diarists. They include the great and the good from Beatrice Webb to Tony Benn, from A. C. Benson to Alan Bennett, from Virginia Ironside to Hanif Kureishi as well as many less-well-known individuals such as Gladys Langford and Kathleen Tipper, whose writings for the Mass Observation Project offer brilliant glimpses into what the man or woman on the street really made of the stuff of history at the time.From the Easter Rising to the arrival of email, from the Boer War to New Labour, here are responses to the death of Princess Diana, the resignation of Margaret Thatcher, the Moon landing, the Beatles and much more.Guardian Best Books of 2017, selected by David KynastonPraise for Travis Elborough:One of Britain's finest pop culture historians.GuardianElborough is an English nostalgist in the mode of John Betjeman as a cultural commentator he is a terrific companion.Sunday TimesTravis Elborough is becoming a latter-day Alan Bennett.SpectatorElborough has the passion of a true enthusiast.Mail on SundayElborough is a charming, funny and frequently fascinating guide.Telegraph In Travis Elboroughs expertly curated collection of diaries, letters and journals, the great and the good rub shoulders with the obscure, the unsung and the everyday to bring us a unique top down and bottom up history of Britain during the twentieth century. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781782437352
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