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Life in 1950s London

Product Description: After the trauma of the Blitz and wartime restrictions, London embraced the arrival of a new decade. Austerity was slow to loosen its grip, but the Festival of Britain pointed a tentative way forward. Two years later saw the birth of a new Elizabethan era that was greeted with an almost naÃ¯ve enthusiasm...read more

By Mike Hutton

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Hardcover:

9781445621241 | Amberley Pub Plc, February 19, 2015, cover price $34.95

Paperback:

9781445649658 | Amberley Pub Plc, December 19, 2015, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: After the trauma of the Blitz and wartime restrictions, London embraced the arrival of a new decade.

The 50s: The Story of a Decade

By David Remnick (introduced by)

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Hardcover:

9780679644811 | Random House Inc, October 27, 2015, cover price $35.00

The 1950s

By Stephen Feinstein

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9780766069305 | Enslow Pub Inc, August 1, 2015, cover price $34.60

America in the Fifties

Product Description: Shortly after World War II, America experienced an incredible economic and technological boom as soldiers returned home from abroad. The middle class grew, and technology such as the automobile and television found their way into more and more homes...read more

By Enzo George

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9781502604941 | Cavendish Square, August 1, 2015, cover price $31.36 | About this edition: Shortly after World War II, America experienced an incredible economic and technological boom as soldiers returned home from abroad.

Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties

By Michael D. Dwyer

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Hardcover:

9780199356836 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 8, 2015, cover price $99.00

Paperback:

9780199356843 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 8, 2015, cover price $35.00

York in the 1950s: Ten Years That Changed a City

Product Description: The 1950s in York was a decade of reconstruction and regeneration after the depredations of the Second World War. This book charts these changes to give a unique picture of the city that gradually emerged over the years 1950â59...read more

By Paul Chrystal

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9781445640594 | Amberley Pub Plc, July 31, 2015, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The 1950s in York was a decade of reconstruction and regeneration after the depredations of the Second World War.

Modernity Britain: 1957-62

By David Kynaston

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9781620408094 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, December 2, 2014, cover price $55.00

Life in the 1950s

Product Description: The 1950s began in the shadow of War. In Britain, food was still rationed as the country strove to pay off the huge debts that were the legacy of war. However, by the end of the decade the British had "never had it so good," as prime Minister Harold MacMillan told them...read more

By Mike Brown

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9781841655390 | Trafalgar Square, September 1, 2014, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The 1950s began in the shadow of War.

Edinburgh in the 1950s: Ten Years the Changed a City

Product Description: EDINBURGH in the 1950s was a very different place. After the ravages of war, the International Festival and Military Tattoo was introduced as an antidote to postwar austerity, the new Civic Survey and Plan put forward grandiose recommendations for change, and a new young Queen visited the city...read more

By Fraser Parkinson

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9781445637556 | Amberley Pub Plc, April 19, 2014, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: EDINBURGH in the 1950s was a very different place.

Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America

Product Description: Welcome to Mars is a captivating look at the culture of postwar America and its dream of limitless technological and human development. Utilizing declassified government archives, newspaper records, ad campaigns, and B-movies of the period, Hollings weaves an intricate web of Cold War politics, UFO scares, psychedelic research, and 1950s pop culture...read more

By Erik Davis (foreword by)

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9781583947616 | Reprint edition (North Atlantic Books, March 18, 2014), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Welcome to Mars is a captivating look at the culture of postwar America and its dream of limitless technological and human development.

Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

The way journalist Gus Bailey tells it, old money is always preferred, but occasionally new money sneaks in--even where it is most unwelcome. After moving from Cincinnati, Elias and Ruby Renthal strike it even richer in New York, turning their millions into billions. It would be impolite for high society to refuse them now. Not to mention disadvantageous. As long as the market is strong, there's absolutely nothing to worry about--except for those nasty secrets from the past. Scandal, anyone...?

By Rachel Cooke

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Hardcover:

9780062333865 | Harpercollins, December 2, 2014, cover price $26.99

Paperback:

9780062333872 | Perennial, December 8, 2015, cover price $15.99

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780553451641, titled "People Like Us" | Bantam Audio, May 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | also contains People Like Us | About this edition: The way journalist Gus Bailey tells it, old money is always preferred, but occasionally new money sneaks in--even where it is most unwelcome.

1950s Childhood: Growing Up in Post-war Britain

Product Description: The generation who grew up in Britain immediately after the Second World War are popularly called 'The Baby Boomers'. As children, they experienced life in Britain from wartime austerity to the relative affluence of the late 1950s...read more

By JANET SHEPHERD

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9780747812357 | Shire Pubns, March 18, 2014, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The generation who grew up in Britain immediately after the Second World War are popularly called 'The Baby Boomers'.

Vintage Pattern: 1950s

By Marnie Fogg

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9781849940948 | B T Batsford Ltd, September 3, 2013, cover price $12.95

A 1950s Childhood

Product Description: â¢ 'Vivid recollection of life in the post-war years of austerity â¦ a remarkable picture of a recent but now-vanished society.â BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR LOCAL HISTORYâ¢ âFascinating reading.â NEWBURY WEEKLY NEWSâ¢ Nostalgia for this post-war era is considerableA 1950s Childhood tells the autobiographical story of life for a boy growing up in England in the austerity period: food rationing, bomb damage, but also fun, laughs and larks in a picturesque seaside town...read more

By Edward Page

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9781445610801 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, July 19, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: â¢ 'Vivid recollection of life in the post-war years of austerity â¦ a remarkable picture of a recent but now-vanished society.

The Fifties Mystique

Product Description: Many young women 'long to put the clock back to the post-war years when life seemed prettier and nicer.' In this book Jessica Mann demolishes such preconceptions about their mothers' or grandmothers' young days, showing that in reality life was uglier and nastier...read more

By Jessica Mann

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9781908878076 | Gardners Books, July 9, 2013, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: Many young women 'long to put the clock back to the post-war years when life seemed prettier and nicer.

9780704372559 | Gardners Books, March 30, 2012, cover price $19.90 | About this edition: The Fifties Mystique is both a personal memoir and a polemic.

1950s American Home

By Diane Boucher

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9780747812388, titled "The 1950s American Home" | Shire Pubns, June 18, 2013, cover price $9.95

This Is Who We Were: In the 1950s

Product Description: This is Who We Were, provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day to day life in America in 1950. This new series is sure to be of value as both a serious research tool for students of American history as well as an intriguing climb up America's family tree...read more

By Scott Derks

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9781619251793 | Grey House Pub, April 1, 2013, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: This is Who We Were, provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day to day life in America in 1950.

Fifty Fashion Looks That Changed the 1950's

By Design Museum (corporate author) and Paula Reed

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9781840916034 | Conran Octopus, October 10, 2012, cover price $20.00

Liverpool's Children in the 1950s

Product Description: Full of the warmth and excitement of growing up in the 1950s, awakening nostalgia for times that seemed cosy and carefree with families at last enjoying peacetime, this book is packed with the experience of school days, playtime, holidays, toys, games, clubs and hobbies conjuring up the genuine atmosphere of a bygone era...read more

By Pamela Russell

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9780752459011 | Trafalgar Square, July 1, 2012, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Full of the warmth and excitement of growing up in the 1950s, awakening nostalgia for times that seemed cosy and carefree with families at last enjoying peacetime, this book is packed with the experience of school days, playtime, holidays, toys, games, clubs and hobbies conjuring up the genuine atmosphere of a bygone era.

E L'ora Della Spesa: Pubblicita E Consumi Negli Anni Cinquanta

Product Description: "Ã¨ l'ora della spesa" is a colourful and precious book about the Fifties in Italy, seen through slogans and posters following the same American path of prosperity and consumerism.

By Stefano Bulgarelli

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9788896408070 | Anniversary Books Srl, September 16, 2012, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: "Ã¨ l'ora della spesa" is a colourful and precious book about the Fifties in Italy, seen through slogans and posters following the same American path of prosperity and consumerism.

Far Out Depends on Where You're Standing: A New Look at the 1950s

By Tom Dalzell

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9780486482804 | Dover Pubns, April 17, 2013, cover price $24.95

Sports Car Racing in Camera 1950-59

Product Description: Following the success of Haynesâs In Camera titles covering sports car racing and Formula 1 in the 1960s and 1970s, the spotlight is turned on the 1950s, starting with the vibrant sports car scene of that decade. Meticulously researched and rare photographs â over half of them in color â are brought to life through the authorâs well-observed and atmospheric commentary to create a visually stunning and highly nostalgic record of this dramatic decade...read more

By Paul Parker

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9781844255528 | Haynes Pubns, February 1, 2011, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Following the success of Haynesâs In Camera titles covering sports car racing and Formula 1 in the 1960s and 1970s, the spotlight is turned on the 1950s, starting with the vibrant sports car scene of that decade.

1950s Fashion Print

By Marnie Fogg

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9781906388881 | 1 edition (B T Batsford Ltd, February 1, 2011), cover price $29.95

1950s Glamour

By Ian Penberthy (editor)

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9781906672621 | Ammonite Pr, November 1, 2010, cover price $19.95

Changing Times: Welsh Women Writing on the 1950s and 1960s

Product Description: Featuring vital firsthand testimonies from women of all walks of life from important points in history, and giving an intimate portrayal of real womenâs lives in different eras, this book looks at the 1950s and 1960s. Like many other aspects of life, education in these decades for most girls still meant segregation, not just by gender but also by age...read more

By Deirdre Beddoe (editor)

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9781906784102 | 2 edition (Honno Ltd, January 1, 2010), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Featuring vital firsthand testimonies from women of all walks of life from important points in history, and giving an intimate portrayal of real womenâs lives in different eras, this book looks at the 1950s and 1960s.

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