State of Emergency: The Way We Were
by Dominic Sandbrook · 29 Sep 2010 · 932pp · 307,785 words
, consumerism and material ambition.19 In many respects, what people bought at these new shopping centres was simply ‘more of the same’, as the historian Arthur Marwick puts it. By the late 1970s, almost all households had at least one television, 88 per cent had a fridge, 71 per cent a washing
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. 8. Michael Young and Peter Willmott, The Symmetrical Family: A Study of Work and Leisure in the London Region (London, 1973), pp. 29–30, 48; Arthur Marwick, British Society Since 1945 (Harmondsworth, 1982), p. 121; Ken Coates and Richard Silburn, Poverty: The Forgotten Englishmen (Harmondsworth, 1970), p. 60; Piers Paul Read, A
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1973, 10 September 1973, 30 April 1974. 19. Ann Oakley, Housewife (London, 1974), p. 131; Benson, The Rise of Consumer Society, pp. 70–71. 20. Arthur Marwick, British Society Since 1945 (Harmondsworth, 1982), pp. 242–3; Benson, The Rise of Consumer Society, p. 72; Screen Digest, April 1979; Justin Smith, ‘Glam, Spam
The Myth of the Blitz
by Angus Calder · 28 Jun 2012 · 434pp · 127,608 words
from the League and appeased Mussolini. Yet ‘appeasers’ in government circles might be moved by revulsion against slaughter, as Baldwin himself was. They too, as Arthur Marwick puts it, ‘had been “scorched” by war: they would not lightly risk playing with fire’.25 While the Labour Party abandoned its opposition to rearmament
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
by Anne Applebaum · 30 Oct 2012 · 934pp · 232,651 words
, French perfumes, Dutch brandy, and Swiss watches among the rubble …13 This enthusiasm for work and renewal would last for many years. The British sociologist Arthur Marwick once speculated that the experience of national failure might have given the West Germans an incentive to rebuild, to regain a sense of national pride
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. Stefan Kisielewski, “Ci z Warszawy,” Przekroj 6, 5, 1945. 13. Sándor Márai, Portraits of a Marriage, trans. George Szirtes (New York, 2011), p. 272. 14. Arthur Marwick, War and Social Change in the Twentieth Century (London, 1974), pp. 98–145. 15. Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (New York, 2010
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History
by David Edgerton · 27 Jun 2018
military, the state (except the welfare state), and one driven by progressive forces, though these are held back. Among the earliest were the works of Arthur Marwick, such as The Explosion of British Society, 1914–1970 (London, 1963, 1971), Britain in the Century of Total War: War, Peace and Social Change 1900
Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain From the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times
by Lucy Lethbridge · 18 Nov 2013 · 457pp · 128,640 words
Tschumi, Royal Chef: Forty Years with Royal Households, London, 1954, p. 142. 10 Quoted in Kenneth Rose, King George V, London, 1983, p. 260. 11 Arthur Marwick, The Deluge: British Society and the First World War, London, 1965, pp. 91–2. 12 The Times, 8 December 1915. 13 Quoted in Gail Braybon
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari · 9 Sep 2024 · 566pp · 169,013 words
, 196–97, 250, 309–14; Zhores Medvedev and Roy Medvedev, Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death, and Legacy (New York: Overlook Press, 2005), 19–35. 124. Arthur Marwick, The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958–c. 1974 (London: Bloomsbury Reader, 1998); Peter B. Levy, The Great
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
by Robert D. Putnam · 12 Oct 2020 · 678pp · 160,676 words
James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974, The Oxford History of the United States, vol. 10 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996); Arthur Marwick, The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958–c.1974 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998); and Maurice Isserman
The Making of Modern Britain
by Andrew Marr · 16 May 2007 · 618pp · 180,430 words
K. Massie, Castles of Steel, Pimlico, 2005. 82. See ibid. 83. See notes to John Grigg, Lloyd George: War Leader, Allen Lane, 2002. 84. See Arthur Marwick, The Deluge, Bodley Head, 1975. 85. Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, cited ibid. 86. Corrigan, Mud, Blood and Poppycock. 87. See Ian Passingham, All the Kaiser
Austerity Britain: 1945-51
by David Kynaston · 12 May 2008 · 870pp · 259,362 words
the Times (Oxford, 1990), pp 95–7; T. Ferguson and J. Cunnison, ‘The Impact of National Service’, British Journal of Sociology (Dec 1959), p 286; Arthur Marwick, Britain in Our Century (1984), p 153; Sidney R. Campion, The World of Colin Wilson (1962), pp 42–3. 16. Liz Stanley, Sex Surveyed, 1949
The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War
by Norman Stone · 15 Feb 2010 · 851pp · 247,711 words
Gaulle (1983), is a good summary of the problems of the late Fourth Republic. ‘The Sixties’ is an enormous subject. I have a weakness for Arthur Marwick, The Sixties (1998), but it was devastatingly reviewed by Roger Kimball, whose own contemptuous remarks as to universities were recorded in Tenured Radicals (1990). The