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Andrew Rosen, The Transformation of British Life 1950-2000 (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2003)
IN 1950 MOST British people would not have owned their own homes nor had access to their own telephone. If they were lucky enough to afford vacations, they would have holidayed within the borders of Britain, perhaps even within a hundred mile radius. Europe would have been a place only soldiers and the wealthy would have experienced. Food afforded a similar parochialism. The most exotic fare most Britons would have had in 1950 was probably also the least welcome: the snoek, a fish of questionable taste from the waters off South Africa, pushed into service as an alternative staple during the lean years of austerity. Nineteen-fifty also saw the highest level of political mobilization in the twentieth century; in the election of that year, 12.5 million people voted for the Conservatives, with 13.2 million voting Labour.
Half a century later, the picture was, unsurprisingly, very different, as Andrew Rosen shows in... |
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