Time period: 1945-

Offering a history of modern Britain since the late 1970s, author Andrew Hindmoor takes one particular day as a starting point, then goes on to describe its relevance and significance to modern British history.

This delightful compendium of memories will appeal to all who grew up in this post-war decade, whether in town or country, wealth or poverty.

To the young people of today, the 1950s seem like another age. But for those born around then, this era of childhood feels like yesterday. This collection of photographic memories will appeal to all who grew up in this post-war decade; they include pictures of children enjoying life out on the st...

With few TVs, children made their own entertainment, which included playing conkers, building dens and go-karts, climbing trees and re-enacting fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the local corner shop. Much has changed for children ...

After ten years of austerity, the early 1950s saw rationing draw to an end. Gathered together in this colourful creation of over 1,000 products and images, 'The 1950s Scrapbook' conjures up the life and times of the decade. From the Festival of Britain and the Coronation of Elizabeth II to the ab...

In 1956, everything changed. Britain and France occupied Suez, and the Soviet Union invaded Hungary. Nikita Khrushchev's 'secret speech' exposed the crimes of Stalin. Suddenly the left found itself homeless, as the Communist Party became uninhabitable. The Royal Court Theatre unveiled John Osborn...

With chapters on home and school life, games and hobbies, music and fashion, alongside a selection of charming illustrations, this compendium lets you take a nostalgic look at what it was like to grow up during the sixties and recaptures the various aspects of life back then.

With chapters on home and school life, games and hobbies, music and fashion, alongside a selection of charming illustrations, this compendium lets you take a nostalgic look at what it was like to grow up during the sixties and recaptures the various aspects of life back then.

There is Britain before 1965 and Britain after 1965 - and they are not the same thing. 1965 was the year Britain democratised education, it was the year pop culture began to be taken as seriously as high art, the time when comedians and television shows imported the methods of modernism into thei...

This series uses headline making events and people to explore international and current affairs, taking in such diverse aspects of life as war, politics, sport and fashion. It provides a unique look at historical events of the years in question.

Each volume in this series is devoted to a decade of British life and contains around 300 photographs that have been hand-picked by the Press Association from its own archives. Most have lain unseen since they were first used as news pictures.

When Mike Carter's father died, he decided to follow the route of a march against unemployment his dad had organised 35 years before. Mike had a troubled relationship with his dad, and hoped the walk, undertaken a month before the Brexit vote, would allow him to understand his father and his coun...

In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the United States was unrivalled and, with the founding of the UN, a new era of international co-operation seemed to have begun. But seventy-five years later, its influence has already diminished. The world has now entered a post-American era, argues...

A compact survey and new interpretation of trends and policies in the US economy from the end of the 19th century to the initial period of the Trump administration. Valli maps three stages in this period of US economic history: first, the economic and demographic consequences of the frontier; sec...

Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. He discovers that he inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina, that we're all going to explode at the age of 62, that Russians look bad in Speedos (but not as bad as Brits), and that no one should have to worry about being Bill Oddie's lon...

In 'The Archipelago', Foot chronicles Italy's tumultuous history from the post-war to the present. He examines both the corrupt and celebrated sides of the country: from the silent assimilation of fascists into society after 1945 to the troubling reign of Silvio Berlusconi and from the artistic p...

'Austerity Britain' takes the reader on a journey from 1945 to the general election of 1951, which returned Churchill and the Conservatives to power after six years of a Labour government that transformed the country.

Do you remember washing in a tin bath by the fire, using outside lavatories and not having a television? Did you grow up in the 1950s and were you a teenager in the swinging sixties? If the Festival of Britain, food rationing and the Queen's coronation are among your earliest memories then you be...