The people : the rise and fall of the working class, 1910-2010
Todd, Selina2014
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Place reservation for The people : the rise and fall of the working class, 1910-2010What was it really like to live through the 20th century? In 1910 three-quarters of the population were working class, but their story has been ignored until now. Based on the first-person accounts of servants, factory workers, miners and housewives, award-winning historian Selina Todd reveals an unexpected Britain where cinema audiences shook their fists at footage of Winston Churchill, communities supported strikers, and where pools winners (like Viv Nicholson) refused to become respectable. Charting the rise of the working class, through two world wars to their fall in Thatcher's Britain and today, Todd tells their story for the first time, in their own words.
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Author:
Todd, Selina, author
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2014.London : John Murray, 2014.
Collation:
456 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781848548817 (hbk)1848548818
Dewey class:
305.5'62'0941'0904305.56209410904305.562323.33305.56
Language:
English
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BRN:
896916
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