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We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars
£14.99
PUGH, MARTIN
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ISBN: 9781844139231
Author: PUGH, MARTIN
Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically been portrayed as a time of great and unrelenting depression. In Martin Pugh's lively and thought-provoking book, however, the acclaimed historian vividly shows how the British people reacted to the privations of wartime by indulging in leisure and entertainment activities of all kinds:
- Dancing
- Cinema-going
- Smoking
- Football pools
- Paid holidays
He explodes the myths of a nation of unwed women, revealing that in the 1930s the institution of marriage was reaching its heyday. Pugh also highlights:
- A rise in real incomes
- Improvements in diet and health
- The spread of cheap luxuries
The result is an extraordinary, engaging work of history that presents us with a fresh perspective and brings out both the strangeness and the familiarity of this point in time.
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