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  • 1960s Childhood

    Series series Britain's Heritage
    Sixties children grew up in a more permissive and commercial age. They enjoyed a childhood in which new vaccines gave children protection from life threatening diseases while the contraceptive pill meant smaller family groups. A controversial programme of comprehensive education began to be rolled out while primary schools would become less rigid and more centred on the needs of the child. This ... Leer más

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  • The 1950s Home

    Series series Britain's Heritage
    The 1950s was a decade of transformation, as Britain moved from austerity to greater affluence. After the Second World War, there was a huge building programme and the creation of new towns brought a new mid-twentieth century vision of the home. The architecture could be very different from what had gone before, and inside new fashions and materials had an impact on every home, old and new. By the ... Leer más

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  • 1950s Childhood

    Growing up in post-war Britain

    Series Libro 737 - Shire Library
    Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for many, while for others the freedom of the riverbank or railway platform was a haven away from the watchful eyes of parents. The postwar welfare state offered free orange juice, milk and healthcare, and there was lots to do, whether football in the street, ... Leer más

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    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    This is Lilian’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.‘When Lilian Tull came to Tate & Lyle shortly after ... Leer más

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  • A 1960s Childhood

    From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania

    de Paul Feeney ...
    Do you remember Beatlemania? Radio Caroline? Mods and Rockers? The very first miniskirts? Then the chances are you were born in the or around 1960. To the young people of today, the 1960s seems like another age. But for those who grew up in this decade, school life, 'mod' fashions and sixties pop music are still fresh in their minds. From James Bond to Sindy dolls and playing hopscotch in the ... Leer más

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  • A 1950s Childhood

    From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping

    de Paul Feeney ...
    Do you remember Pathé News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then the chances are you were born in or around 1950. To the young people of today, the 1950s seem like another age. But for those born around then, this era of childhood feels like yesterday. This delightful collection of photographic memories ... Leer más

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  • Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts

    de Mary Gibson ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Factory Girls
    The captivating bestseller about a factory girl in Bermondsey during World War 1.Britain, 1911.Strikes and riots erupt countrywide as the shadow of the Great War looms over Europe. But in one small corner of London, factory girl Nellie Clark's wages are all that keep her younger brothers and sister from starvation.And, as the young women of Pearce Duff's custard factory watch their m... ... Leer más

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  • Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube

    A Passenger's History of the Tube

    de Andrew Martin ...
    Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from Kings Cross to Kings Cross on the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and illogical metropolitan transport system in the world, the result of a series of botch-jobs and improvisations.Yet it transports over one billion passengers every year - and this figure is ... Leer más

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  • Permission Impossible: Metal Detecting Search Permission Made Easy

    The find of a lifetime starts with obtaining search permission or legally avoiding that obligation.Where can you legally search without permission? How do you find the landowner to ask for search permission? How do you persuade the landowner to give their permission? These are the questions on the lips of many participants in the hobby, be they beginner or old hand.In this groundbreaking best ... Leer más

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  • The Edwardian House Explained

    de Trevor Yorke ...
    The period from 1900 to 1914—the Edwardian Age—is often thought of as a golden time of country house parties and endless summers. In fact, it was a time of great social change. Wealthy industrialists were building houses for their workers at Port Sunlight (Lever), Bournville (Cadbury) and New Earswick (Rowntree). The garden suburb was also being developed and seen as a way of clearing slum housing ... Leer más

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  • Arts & Crafts House Styles

    de Trevor Yorke ...
    The Arts & Crafts movement began as an instinctive reaction to the new Industrial Age. Seeking a return to simple craftsmanship, with traditional materials, its influence spread both to Europe and North America, where the term 'craftsman' denoted a traditional style of architecture and interior design prevalent before the 1920s. In England the Arts & Crafts influence upon house building was far ... Leer más

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  • Real England

    The Battle Against The Bland

    We see the signs around us every day: the chain caf�s and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. For the first time, here is a book that makes the connection between these isolated, incremental local changes and the bigger picture of a nation ... Leer más

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