Outbreak of Pleasure
Angus Calder, 23 January 1986
Now the war is over: A Social History of Britain 1945-51
by Paul Addison.
BBC/Cape, 223 pp., £10.95, September 1985,0 563 20407 9 Show More
by Paul Addison.
BBC/Cape, 223 pp., £10.95, September 1985,
England First and Last
by Anthony Bailey.
Faber, 212 pp., £12.50, October 1985,0 571 13587 0 Show More
by Anthony Bailey.
Faber, 212 pp., £12.50, October 1985,
A World Still to Win: The Reconstruction of the Post-War Working Class
by Trevor Blackwell and Jeremy Seabrook.
Faber, 189 pp., £4.50, October 1985,0 571 13701 6 Show More
by Trevor Blackwell and Jeremy Seabrook.
Faber, 189 pp., £4.50, October 1985,
The Issue of War: States, Societies and the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941-1945
by Christopher Thorne.
Hamish Hamilton, 364 pp., £15, April 1985,0 241 10239 1 Show More
by Christopher Thorne.
Hamish Hamilton, 364 pp., £15, April 1985,
Faces of Hiroshima: A Report
by Anne Chisholm.
Cape, 182 pp., £9.95, August 1985,0 224 02831 6 Show More
by Anne Chisholm.
Cape, 182 pp., £9.95, August 1985,
“... of traditional working-class culture to a summit of influence in the mid-20th century.’ Yet Trevor Blackwell and Jeremy Seabrook don’t mention sport at all in A World Still to Win, their eloquent but also irritating and unconvincing tract on the ‘reconstruction of the post-war working class’. For them, it seems, the working class must be ... ”
