Kynaston David:
Family Britain, 1951-1957
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (United Kingdom), 2009
Hardback
Size: 234x153 mm
ISBN: 9780747583851
ISBN-10: 0747583854
List price: £25.00
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Family Britain, 1951-1957
As in David Kynaston's 'Austerity Britain', an array of vivid, intimate voices drive the narrative in this book. Keen-eyed Nella shops assiduously at Barrow market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of surburban life, brings up her children in Chingford. These and many other voices give a rich, unsentimental picture of everyday life in the 1950s. Well-known figures are also encountered along the way - all a part of this colourful, unfolding tapestry in which the great national events jostle alongside everything that gave Britain in the the 1950s its distinctive flavour.

