Family Life from 1930-80's

This series aims to be of interest to the 13-16 year old reader and should be helpful for GCSE project work. Each book focuses on one aspect of British life, making clear how its has developed through history to the present day, and using a variety of photographs and quotations from contemporary sources The author shows how the family has survived such phenomena as the massive unemployment of the 1930s, the disruption of World War II, the baby-boom of the post-war period, the birth of the teenager in the 1950s, the "permissiveness" of the 1960s and 1970s, and the concepts of the working mother and the one-parent family. She compares and contrasts the family of the 1930s and the family today by considering its members and then by looking at the different aspects of everyday life - education, housing, food, clothes, leisure, sport and holidays. Two final chapters discuss how the conditions of the less well-off have developed over the years and how immigrant families cope with life in Britain. Frances Wilkins teaches in Essex and is the author of "Merchants and Traders" and "Transport and Travel" and of several titles in the "Growing Up"series.