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The reign : life in Elizabeth's Britain. Part I, The way it was, 1952-79 / Matthew Engel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engel, Matthew, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952-2022.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--1945-.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 627 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Way it was, 1952-79
- Place of Publication:
- London : Atlantic Books, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: THE 1950s
- 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
- THE 1960s
- 1. Wives and servants
- 2. C'mon, little miss, let's do the twist
- 3. Goodbye to all that
- 4. Read all about it!
- 5. They love us, yeah, yeah, yeah
- 6. Enough rope
- 7. The last from the past
- 8. Mickey Mouse and Rattin
- 9. Up, up and away
- 10. If you can meet with triumph and disaster
- 11. Smashing the crockery
- 12. Ye Blocks, ye Stones
- 13. Closing time
- 14. A woman's work
- 15. Down with skools
- 16. The past blasters
- 17. Now we are forty
- 18. The faint echoes of empire
- 19. The moon, money and Murdoch
- THE 1970s
- 1. Is the show really over?
- 2. Listen to reason
- 3. The iceman cometh
- 4. Everybody out
- 5. Down among the dead elms
- 6. And the bands played on
- 7. We're in
- 8. He's out
- 9. It's that man again
- 10. Change and decay
- 11. Anarchy on the King's Road
- 12. Heatwave and humiliation
- 13. Flaps, sir
- 14. The land of lost content
- 15. Mark the herald angels sing
- 16. The girl that I marry
- 17. The madman of Kampala
- 18. But this is home
- 19. Weirder still and weirder
- 20. The people's pleasures
- 21. Hearth and health
- 22. The eerie quiet, the bitter harvest
- 23. Change and echoes
- 24. The woman's hour.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781786496676
- 1786496674
- OCLC:
- 1305436383
- Publisher Number:
- 99992328512
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