Le parole sono pietre
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Set in the early 1950s, this novel relates the author's trips to Sicily and the impressions he had...
Lettice & Victoria
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Darkly funny and deeply insightful, this novel is not just a love story with a fanciful and flawed...
Cars We Loved in the 1950s
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After the Second World War, cars in Britain were very hard to come by. Most new models had to go for...
Manchild in the Promised Land
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Manchild in the Promised Land is a 1965 autobiographical novel written by Claude Brown. It...
British Railways in the 1950s and '60s
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As Britain moved from austerity to prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, it became clear that British...
Women's Voices in Ireland: Women's Magazines in the 1950s and 60s
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Women's Voices in Ireland examines the letters and problems sent in by women to two Irish women's...
A 1950s Childhood: Spangles, Tiddlywinks and the Clitheroe Kid
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With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens...
The Captive Mind
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Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern...
Here be Dragons
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In the years after World War Two, Nell Sely, child of the forgotten generation, wanders blind...
Minor Characters
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This is Joyce Johnson's autobiography, set in 1950s New York. Johnson left her suburban,...