Our times : the age of Elizabeth II / A.N. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, A. N., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952-2022.

Great Britain.

History.

Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-.

Social conditions.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--1945-.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

xi, 482 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

Contents:

Part 1 Churchill and Eden

1 Old Western Man 13

2 Space and Spies 21

3 Other Gods 34

4 A Portrait of Decay 49

5 Suez 59

Part 2 Macmillan

6 Supermac 73

7 Mental Health and Suicides 101

8 Lady Chatterley and Honest to God 113

9 Profumo and After 125

Part 3 A Fourteenth Earl and a Fourteenth Mr Wilson

10 Enemies of Promise 139

11 The 14th Mr Wilson 150

12 Ireland 170

13 The 1960s 181

Part 4 The 1970s

14 HeathCo 205

15 Women's Liberation 219

16 The Decline of the Roman Catholic Church 228

17 The End of Harold Wilson 242

18 Lucky Jim 249

Part 5 The Lady

19 'This Was a Terrific Battle' 271

20 Thatcher as Prime Minister 280

Part 6 Mr Major's Britain

21 Nice Mr Major 307

22 Prince Charles and Lady Di 319

23 The Union 331

24 Stephen Lawrence 340

Part 7 The Project

25 New Labour 351

26 Tony's Wars 367

27 Islamists 379

28 The Return of God 392

29 Gordon Brown 402.

Notes:

"Originally published in 2008 by Hutchinson, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-461) and index.

ISBN:

9780374228200

0374228205

OCLC:

318585671