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`lively and accessible'
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'A fascinating detailed look at how we lived during the interwar years'
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Martin Pugh has amassed a great deal of information about the attitudes and social mores of the ordinary people throughout Britain in the Twenties and Thirties and made it accessible and even enjoyable. The 'celebrities' such as the Duff-Coopers and the Mountbattens are there, but the strength of the book lies in the insights it gives into the lives of ordinary people going about their work and leisure. There is rigour as references are scrupulously given, but there is also an easy and friendly style which makes the 400 plus pages pass quite quickly.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book gives a fascinating and scholarly account of all aspects of life between the two world wars. There are chapters on sport, food, housing, crime, marriage and divorce, to name just a few of the topics addressed. The book is written in an accessible style and should be required reading for sixth-formers studying history and for anyone whose interest in this significant period goes beyond the superficial.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of the best and most readable books on a period that is gaining increasing interest.
What I particularly like is the arrangement of chapters by topic rather than a straight 1918-1939 approach e.g. Food Between the Wars, Childhood and education, Sport and gambling, the countryside etc.
What I particularly like is the arrangement of chapters by topic rather than a straight 1918-1939 approach e.g. Food Between the Wars, Childhood and education, Sport and gambling, the countryside etc.
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we danced all night..
i was delighted by this book, which i couldn't put down, not only because it was soo 'up my street' but very well written too. Read more
Published 2 months ago by shufflewick
We Danced All Night by Martin Pugh
Very interesting title about a period in our history which should be better known than it generally is: I guess it tends to be overshadowed by the Second Wolrd War. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Pewence
Couldn't put it down
An excellent book on an interesting period of our history. The book is extremely well organised into chapters on all aspects of social history of this period. Read more
Published 14 months ago by cwatts1
`we danced all night' a new look at the "depression years"
Simon Pugh's social history of Britain between the First and Second World Wars is an excellent text for the period. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2010 by Les Fearns
Easy reading between the covers
How did parts of the working class survive this period and how did parts of the aristocracy have time to eat their dinner? Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2010 by Ms. A. Butler
All great stuff
All great stuff. As some one who has lived through the thirties Matin Pugh brings it all back with remarkable clarity. A truly
remarkable book.
remarkable book.
Published on 12 Sep 2009 by Brian D. Stamp
sadly unreliable
This is no doubt a book full of interest and information, and will be a revelation to those whose view of the 1930s in Britain is limited to the Jarrow March and The Road to Wigan... Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2009 by history man
I did
This replaces The Lost Weekend as the definitive popular study of the social history of the inter war years (and about time too! Read more
Published on 9 May 2009 by Mr. P. G. Williams
An interesting and worthwhile overview
This is a wide-ranging book. What it lacks in depth, it makes up for in breadth. Martin Pugh has clearly put a lot of hard work into this and the evidence he provides more than... Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2009 by J. Goddard
Well written and interesting, but perhaps a bit careless with sources
One of Pugh's frequently-cited surces is Bryan Magee's Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood (2004). The book covers the period between the two wars and quotes from this... Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2008 by J. Price
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