The New Look
Book description
Minimal wear. A very nice clean copy. Previous owner details to free front endpaper. Unclipoped dustwrapper protected by mylar style wrapper
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I bought this to research certain social and political aspects of the 1940s, fearing it might be dry, but it’s brilliantly written – one of the few history books I’ve continued to read for pleasure once I’ve gleaned my research.
Not only does it look at political and historical events and include a generous and delicious selection of photographs, but it’s also concerned with popular culture from the bleak post-war period up to the age of skiffle, television, and the beginnings of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
It gives importance to the morals of the time, attitudes to homosexuality, strip…
From Lesley's list on relationships and sexuality in post-World War II Britain.
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