After the War Years
Life in Britain 1945-1955
Janice Anderson(Author)
Futura Publications (Publisher)
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-7088-6697-9 (ISBN)
Description
The ten years or so after the end of the Second World War in 1945 saw life in Britain change from austerity to prosperity. In the early years of that momentous decade, change for the better was slow in coming.Wartime food rationing, for instance, which actually became more stringent in the last years of the 1940s than it had been during the war, was not finally phased out until 1954 - nearly a year after the coronation of the young and lovely Elizabeth II had seemed to herald a new Elizabethan Age. Post-war Britain may not have seemed, on the surface, as glorious as the age of the first Queen Elizabeth, but its first decade did see remarkable changes for the better in many aspects of life. The poverty known by too many in the 1930s and the hard times of the war years were gradually replaced by wealth and affluence and the beginnings of what came to be called the 'consumer society'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Illustrations
120pp of int b/w photos
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 188 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7088-6697-9 (9780708866979)
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Person
Janice Anderson was born in educated in New Zealand but has lived for many years in Britain. She was a newspaper journalist, a charity press officer and editor for several leading illustrated non-fiction publishers but is now a freelance writer.