by RuthWinstone (Author)
Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the elation, anger, doubts, jealousy, joys and fears of people as they record their own and the nation's triumphs and disasters. To this potent mix she adds the mordant perceptions of observers like Virginia Woolf, Cecil Beaton, Peter Hall and Roy Strong, and the vivid records of everyday life found in the diaries of otherwise ordinary men and women. Events, Dear Boy, Events reveals Britain's recent past in the words of the actors who were shaping the events of the day. This is living real-time history.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: Main
Publisher: British Books for Managers (BBM)
Published: 17 Apr 2014
ISBN 10: 1846684331
ISBN 13: 9781846684333
Book Overview: Brings twentieth-century British politics vividly to life and reveals perspectives on the tumultuous events it sought to control, the changes it resisted and the reforms it brought into being - now in paperback.