This edition collects both volumes of Modernity Britain for the first timeFollowing Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third volume in David Kynastons landmark social history of postwar BritainTriumphant ... A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity about the lives of individuals Financial TimesThis superb history captures the birth pangs of modern Britain ... It is a part of Kynastons huge achievement that such moments of insight and pleasure should accompany what has become a monumental history of our recent past The TimesDavid Kynastons history of postwar 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 Britains more placid 1950s. Now Modernity Britain 195762 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 actionpacked, 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 class to the centre of the national frame when CND galvanised the progressive middle class when youth emerged as a cultural force when the Notting Hill riots made race and immigration an inescapable reality and when meritocracy became the buzz word...

Binding: Paperback;880 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: HBJD1; Weight: 778 g; Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 57

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