Kirby David
Kirby David - Britain 1947 Hope Amid Hardship - Hardcover
Kirby David - Britain 1947 Hope Amid Hardship - Hardcover
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Description: For the British people 1947 was a momentous year. For three long months they endured the worst winter in living memory with drastic fuel shortages and power cuts and continuing food rationing post - World War Two. Heavy snow gave way to widespread flooding in the spring and by the summer the economic crisis had deepened forcing renewed cutbacks; the Chancellor of the Exchequer even imposed a savage tax increase on tobacco the chief solace for much of the nation. But against this backdrop a programme of ambitious and far - reaching reforms was being rolled out from town and country planning to the institution of the National Health Service. Amid the misery of freezing homes meagre food supplies and threadbare clothing the British were on the brink of a new era of social transformation - - the beginnings of the Welfare State'. Drawing upon an extensive range of local newspapers contemporary articles films and the archives of the Mass Observation Project Britain 1947 reveals how ordinary people in town halls hospitals schools and dance halls on the terraces of the local football club at the pub and in homes across Britain navigated survived and found hope in the turbulent world of the 1940s.
Title: Britain 1947 Hope Amid Hardship
Author(s): Kirby David
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781911723219
Pages: 400 Pages, 12 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 8/15/2024
Category: Social & Cultural History
Description: For the British people 1947 was a momentous year. For three long months they endured the worst winter in living memory with drastic fuel shortages and power cuts and continuing food rationing post - World War Two. Heavy snow gave way to widespread flooding in the spring and by the summer the economic crisis had deepened forcing renewed cutbacks; the Chancellor of the Exchequer even imposed a savage tax increase on tobacco the chief solace for much of the nation. But against this backdrop a programme of ambitious and far - reaching reforms was being rolled out from town and country planning to the institution of the National Health Service. Amid the misery of freezing homes meagre food supplies and threadbare clothing the British were on the brink of a new era of social transformation - - the beginnings of the Welfare State'. Drawing upon an extensive range of local newspapers contemporary articles films and the archives of the Mass Observation Project Britain 1947 reveals how ordinary people in town halls hospitals schools and dance halls on the terraces of the local football club at the pub and in homes across Britain navigated survived and found hope in the turbulent world of the 1940s.
Title: Britain 1947 Hope Amid Hardship
Author(s): Kirby David
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781911723219
Pages: 400 Pages, 12 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 8/15/2024
Category: Social & Cultural History
