The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroydà â â s magnificent History of England series, taking us from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.
The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroydà â â s magnificent History of England series, taking us from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography, and the History of England series. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.
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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. The sun never rises 2. Home sweet home 3. The lie of the land 4. Plates in the air 5. The most powerful thing 6. Demands for reform 7. The Terrible Twins 8. What happened to the gentry? 9. Car crazy 10. Little hammers in their muffs 11. The Orange card 12. The black sun 13. Forced to fight 14. The regiment of women 15. The clock stops 16. England's Irish question 17. Gay as you like 18. Labour at the summit 19. Where is the match? 20. Get on, or get out 21. Crash 22. The rituals of suburbia 23. Now we can have some fun 24. The country of the dole 25. The Fasci 26. The bigger picture 27. The Spanish tragedy 28. This is absolutely terrible 29. The alteration 30. The march of the ants 31. Would you like an onion? 32. The pangs of austerity 33. The cruel real world 34. An old world 35. The washing machine 36. Plays and players 37. Riots of passage 38. North and south 39. Elvis on a budget 40. This sporting life 41. Old lace and arsenic 42. The new brutalism 43. The soothing dark 44. In place of peace 45. Bugger them all 46. The first shot 47. The fall of Heath 48. The slot machine 49. Let us bring harmony 50. Here she comes 51. The Falklands flare-up 52. The Big Bang 53. The Brighton blast 54. Was she always right? 55. Money, money, money 56. The curtain falls 57. The fall of sterling 58. One's bum year 59. Put up or shut up 60. The moral abyss 61. A chapter of accidents 62. The unhappy year 63. The princess leaves the fairy tale Bibliography Index
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. The sun never rises 2. Home sweet home 3. The lie of the land 4. Plates in the air 5. The most powerful thing 6. Demands for reform 7. The Terrible Twins 8. What happened to the gentry? 9. Car crazy 10. Little hammers in their muffs 11. The Orange card 12. The black sun 13. Forced to fight 14. The regiment of women 15. The clock stops 16. England's Irish question 17. Gay as you like 18. Labour at the summit 19. Where is the match? 20. Get on, or get out 21. Crash 22. The rituals of suburbia 23. Now we can have some fun 24. The country of the dole 25. The Fasci 26. The bigger picture 27. The Spanish tragedy 28. This is absolutely terrible 29. The alteration 30. The march of the ants 31. Would you like an onion? 32. The pangs of austerity 33. The cruel real world 34. An old world 35. The washing machine 36. Plays and players 37. Riots of passage 38. North and south 39. Elvis on a budget 40. This sporting life 41. Old lace and arsenic 42. The new brutalism 43. The soothing dark 44. In place of peace 45. Bugger them all 46. The first shot 47. The fall of Heath 48. The slot machine 49. Let us bring harmony 50. Here she comes 51. The Falklands flare-up 52. The Big Bang 53. The Brighton blast 54. Was she always right? 55. Money, money, money 56. The curtain falls 57. The fall of sterling 58. One's bum year 59. Put up or shut up 60. The moral abyss 61. A chapter of accidents 62. The unhappy year 63. The princess leaves the fairy tale Bibliography Index
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