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British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980 by Ysenda Maxtone Graham (Paperback, 2021)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139781408710562
eBay Product ID (ePID)23049048440
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBritish Summer Time Begins: the School Summer Holidays 1930-1980
Publication Year2021
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
AuthorYsenda Maxtone Graham
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height196 mm
Item Weight280 g
Item Width126 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorYsenda Maxtone Graham
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- 06 Jul, 2021
British Summer Time
Excellent account of how once we were, and how better to do this than by seeing the way families decided where and how to take holidays and illustrating the changes the decades have wrought in a wonderfully revealing way.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 08 Mar, 2024
This book stirs up very nostalgic memories for me and makes great reading for anybody who grew up in the fifties and sixties
See my review belowVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
