The second volume of Kynaston’s epic social history of postwar Britain covers a period of stabilization: jobs abounded; food rationing ended; and though the Conservatives’ victory in 1951 was fuelled partly by Churchill’s derision of the “Queuetopia” created by Labour, his party did . . .
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Books: “Family Britain, 1951-1957.”
Posted March 13th, 2010 by