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Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy (view source)
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|name=Magda
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|comment= I think I will seek this out, Sue, as in my quest to learn and understand all things British I am perhaps ready to move beyond the journalistic and humorous (e.g. Paxman and Bryson).
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|name=Steve Terrey
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|comment= I love enthusiasts and Peter Hennessey's books on post-war Britain are an enthusiastic labour of love. This is someone who is thrilled by post-war Britain and his research (much of it in the Public Records Office) is first class.
I would also strongly recommend that your readers check out Professor Hennessey's first book "Never Again" - a great account of Britain from 1945-51 as the Attlee government tried to rebuild Britain.
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|name=Frank Lockwood
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|comment= Hello, Having just read the book (and lived through the period) I would like to add that it gives a very good overall picture , but concentrates on the political arena at the expense of the personal minutiae so important to the ordinary public at the time. Best regards, FL.
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