British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer... - Maxtone Graham, Ysenda
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British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer... - Maxtone Graham, Ysenda
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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- Book Title
- British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980
- Genre
- History
- ISBN
- 9781408710555
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A Sunday Times Book of the Year Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to Ysenda Maxtone-Graham in vividly remembered detail by people who were there. Through this prism, it paints a revealing portrait of twentieth-century Britain in summertime: how we were, how families functioned, what houses and gardens and streets were like, what journeys were like, and what people did all day in their free time. It explores their expectations, hopes, fears and habits, the rules or lack of rules under which they lived, their happiness and sadness, their sense of being treasured or neglected - all within living memory, from pre-war summers to the late 1970s. Ysenda takes us back to the long stretch of time from the last days of June till the early days of September - those months when the term-time self was cast off and you could become the person you really were, and you had (if you were lucky) enough hours in the endless succession of days to become good at the things that would later define your adulthood. The 'showpiece' part of the summer holidays was 'the summer holiday', when families took off to the seaside, or to grandparents' houses teeming with cousins, or on early package holidays to France or Spain, siblings wedged into the back of small cars, roof-racks clattering, mothers preparing picnics. British Summer Time Begins is as much about the long weeks either side of that holiday as the trip itself: the weeks when nothing much officially happened, boredom often lurked nearby, and you vanished for hours on end, nobody much knowing or even caring where you were. Could it be that those unscheduled days were actually the most important and formative of your life? From the author of the beloved Terms & Conditions, British Summer Time Begins is a delightful, nostalgic and joyous celebration of summers.
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Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN-13
9781408710555
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2317667170
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Publication Name
British Summer Time Begins: the School Summer Holidays 1930-1980
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
225 mm
Item Weight
491 g
Item Width
144 mm
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Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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