The British at Work

The British may not have invented the holiday as such, but they were largely responsible for the way many other nations spend their leisure time today. Seaside resorts, package tours, holiday camps... Britain gave these gems to the world, largely so we could later go and enjoy them in a warmer climate. In a series of nostalgic snapshots, this book records the way we spent our time off last century, a formative period in history when our holiday dreams evolved from a weekend in Blackpool to a...

Teasmades and TV dinners, queuing and commuting, strikes and street parties, lino and lawnmowers - the last century was a fertile time in the development of the British way of life. And from the Roaring Twenties to the comical eccentricity of the 1970s, the British way of life underwent a massive revolution. This book captures that sometimes awkward development in a selection of poignant photographs that will bring fond memories flooding back.

Take a stroll down Memory Lane with this wonderful collection of photographs of Britain in the 1970s, a fast-changing decade which saw a steady rise in living standards, the introduction of package tours abroad, far too many oranges and browns in home furnishings, bottles of Blue Nun and Black Tower, Vesta curries, spacehoppers, Bagpuss and Curlie-Wurlies, prawn cocktails and avocados, colour TV, Kevin Keegan's perm, the Nolan Sisters, Abba, Edward Heath & Harold Wilson, Arthur Scargill &...

ake a stroll down Memory Lane with this wonderful collection of photographs of Britain in the 1940s, which evokes those Happy Days when everyone pulled together to defeat Hitler and kept smiling despite the hardship of the post-war years. Over 90 photographs are accompanied by a witty and moving commentary describing a decade when the 'Three Rs' ruled in every classroom, it was safe for children to play out on the streets and boys had sensible names like James, Robert and John, while...

The 1930s came in with the Great Depression and went out with World War II. Amid all the political and financial upheaval, it was a decade that saw many traditions shaken to their foundations and new thinking taking centre-stage, leading to the abdication of Edward VIII, great leaps forward in health and education and the launch of BBC television. In this book the human side of this revolutionary decade is captured vividly in words and pictures.

Take a stroll down Memory Lane with this wonderful collection of photographs of Britain in the 1960s, a revolutionary decade when the consumer society arrived on every family's doorstep and Swinging London briefly came to be the centre of the world. Over 90 photographs are accompanied by a witty and moving commentary describing a golden decade when the traditional stiff upper lip gave way to the counter-culture and kids no longer wanted to be like Dad and Mum. This was a time of great...