The people : the rise and fall of the working class
Todd, Selina2015
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What 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.
Main title:
The people : the rise and fall of the working class / Selina Todd.
Author:
Edition:
[New edition].
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2015.
Collation:
502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Previous edition: 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781848548824 (pbk)1848548826 (pbk)9781848548831 (ebook)
Dewey class:
305.562 TOD305.562
LC class:
HD8390
Language:
English
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BRN:
271486