LATER THAN WE THOUGHT: PORTRAIT OF THE THIRTIES - Hardcover

Cutforth, Rene.

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Synopsis

The Thirties was an era which opened in depression and ended in war, but a time when the British, individually and as a people, still felt they ran the world. Although 'Red Revolution' was flowering among the young intellectuals, the thirties was on the whole a reactionary, middle class decade, with the great bulk of the population lined up solidly behind tradition and the Royal Family. the Twenties' break-through in sexual emancipation for women and escape from family domination by the young of both sexes, continued with the Thirties; but women's dress became feminine again, curves came back, dance music was sweeter, and a sense of social guilt on behalf of the poor and the unemployed, rare in the Twenties, haunted the conscience of the time. Rene Cutforth's account of the Thirties i

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