Bloomsbury. Hardback. 776pp. Substantial history of the early 1950s. Two small selections of black and white plates. Very clean and neat. Very good copy in like dust wrapper . Hardback. Date: 2007. 2007. Bloomsbury ISBN 0747583854 9780747583851 [GB]

ISBN10: 0747583854, ISBN13: 9780747583851, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London] Hardcover FAMILY BRITAIN 1951-57 David Kynaston. Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., London.2009 First edition ISBN 9780747583851 776pp Illustrated Hardback. This mint unread copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is also in mint condition. In 2007 David Kynaston published Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 to much acclaim. The title consists of two books that together make the first volume in a projected series of six entitled Tales of a New Jerusalem. In this series Kynaston chronicles the history of Great Britain from the end of World War II to the ascension of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. Austerity Britain was named "Book of the Decade" by The Sunday Times. Family Britain (2010) was the second volume in the series, and was also released as two books. It covers the period from 1951 to the Suez crisis of 1956. The third volume, Modernity Britain, covering the years 1957–59, was published in June 2013. I am selling all of these and other volumes from this groundbreaking series on this site. As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive the narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban ...

London: Bloomsbury, Date: 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: [vii], 776 p., [32] p. of plates: ill.; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [699]-750) and index. Subjects: Great Britain Social history 1950-1959. Great Britain Politics and government 1945-1964. Great Britain History Elizabeth II, 1952-. Great Britain Social conditions 1945-. Genre: History. 2009. London: Bloomsbury ISBN 0747583854 9780747583851 [IE]