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Modernity Britain : Book Two: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62 by David Kynaston is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third volume in David Kynaston's landmark social history of post-war Britain'Triumphant... A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity about the lives of individuals'Financial Times'This superb history captures the birth pangs of modern Britain... It is a part of Kynaston's huge achievement that such moments of insight and pleasure should accompany what has become a monumental history of our recent past'The Times____________________David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain and through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s. Now Modernity Britain 1957–62 sees the coming of a new Zeitgeist as Kynaston gets up close to a turbulent era in which the speed of social change accelerated.The late 1950s to early 1960s was an action-packed, often dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain began to take shape. These were the'never had it so good'years, when the Carry On film series got going, and films like Room at the Top and the first soaps like Coronation Street and Z Cars brought the working
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- Author
- David Kynaston
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781408844403
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, History, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 4.42 / 5 (26 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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