Retrochic
Keith Thomas, 20 April 1995
Theatres of Memory. Vol. I: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture
by Raphael Samuel.
Verso, 479 pp., £18.95, February 1995,0 86091 209 4 Show More
by Raphael Samuel.
Verso, 479 pp., £18.95, February 1995,
“... rehouse the poor, did the conservation of heritage take on a Tory hue. In the absorbing diaries of James Lees-Milne, the preservation of country houses is revealingly linked with opposition to all the levelling tendencies of modern life. Lees-Milne, however, is not a typical voice of modern conservatism. The Thatcherism ... ”