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***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***
Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman
'A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of living memory.' Simon Heffer, 'Books of the Year' , Daily Telegraph
'A joyous new book on post-war Britain.' Daily Mail
She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, Winston Churchill was prime minister, sweets were rationed, mums stayed at home and kids played on bombsites. In the seventy years that followed everything changed utterly - except the Queen herself, ageing far more gracefully than the fractious nation with which she became synonymous.
While the Queen is the motif for this book, the story Engel tells is not about her - it is primarily about the British. Through original research, interviews with people who were there and his own memories of the time, Matthew Engel traces the transformation of life in Britain as never before.
Beginning with the death of King George VI and ending on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's election, Engel not only covers all the major historical events but also explores everyday life - from the food we ate and where we shopped, to what we watched on television and the newspapers we read. In doing so, he brings these three decades to life with his own light touch and a wealth of fascinating, forgotten, often funny detail.
Contents
1: God save the . . . 2: The state of her realm, 1952 3: The crowning glory 4: What's on tonight? 5: Women and children 6: The moral tone 7: The immoral tone 8: Let him have it, Goddard 9: Shoulders back! 10: Summoned by buzzers 11: Years of living dangerously 12: The reign of error 13: The young ones 14: The newcomers 15: Reach for the sky 16: Of dukes and debs 17: So good 18: Keep going well 19: Wives and servants 20: C'mon, little miss, let's do the twist 21: Goodbye to all that 22: Read all about it! 23: They love us, yeah, yeah, yeah 24: Enough rope 25: The last from the past 26: Mickey Mouse and Rattín 27: Up, up and away 28: If you can meet with triumph and disaster 29: Smashing the crockery 30: Ye Blocks, ye Stones 31: Closing time 32: .A woman's work 33: Down with skools 34: The past blasters 35: Now we are forty 36: The faint echoes of empire 37: The moon, money and Murdoch 38: Is the show really over? 39: Listen to reason 40: The iceman cometh 41: Everybody out 42: Down among the dead elms 43: And the bands played on 44: We're in 45: He's out 46: It's that man again 47: Change and decay 48: Anarchy on the King's Road 49: Heatwave and humiliation 50: Flaps, sir! 51: The land of lost content 52: Mark the herald angels sing 53: The girl that I marry 54: The madman of Kampala 55: But this is home 56: Weirder still and weirder 57: The people's pleasures 58: Hearth and health 59: The eerie quiet, the bitter harvest 60: Change and echoes 61: The woman's hour
