Edinburgh in the 1950s
Author: Jack Gillon
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1445637693
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From post-war austerity to the start of the swinging sixties.
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Edinburgh and the Lothians in the 1950s
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781845472078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the advent of rock 'n' roll, the Queen's coronation, and the explosion of television, the Fifties were a time of phenomenal change for the UK, and Edinburgh was right at the heart of it. From Murrayfield to Princes Street, this work offers a look at 'the Athens of the North'.
Where to Stay when in Edinburgh
Author: Transport Department (Edinburgh). - Bureau for Apartments
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →American Culture in the 1950s
Author: Martin Halliwell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2007-03-13
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0748628908
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events - from Invisible Man to West Side Story, from Disneyland to the Seattle World's Fair, from Rear Window to The Americans - the book examines the way in which modernism and the cold war offer two frames of reference for understanding the trajectory of postwar culture. The two core aims of this volume are to chart the changing complexion of American culture in the years following World War II and to provide readers with a critical investigation of 'the 1950s'. The book provides an intellectual context for approaching 1950s American culture and considers the historical impact of the decade on recent social and cultural developments.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF EDINBURGH 1957 -1966
The 1950s
Author: James S. Olson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2018-10-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1440861331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume serves as an invaluable guide to key political, social, and cultural concepts of the 1950s. This volume covers the entire decade of the 1950s, from the uneasy peace following World War II to the beginnings of cultural discontent that would explode in the 1960s. It highlights key historical, social, and cultural elements of the period, including the Cold War and perceived communist threat; the birth of the middle class and establishment of consumer culture; the emergence of the civil rights movement; and the normalization of youth rebellion and rock and roll. An introduction presents the historical themes of the period, and an alphabetical encyclopedic entries relating to period-specific themes comprises the core reference material in the book. The book also contains a range of primary documents with introductions and a sample Documents Based Essay Question. Other features are a list of "Top Tips" for answering Documents Based Essay Questions, a thematically tagged chronology, and a list of specific learning objectives readers can use to gauge their working knowledge and understanding of the period.
The 1950s
Author: Nick Bentley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-09-06
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1350011525
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the 'Angry Young Men', an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E. R. Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham.
Growing Up in the 50s
Edinburgh Memories
Author: Miles Tubb
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780750951005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edinburgh Memories is the unique and fascinating result of many conversations and interviews with local people, recalling life in the city during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Compiled by the Living Memory Association, vivid memories are recounted, including childhood and schooldays, work and play, sport and leisure, and the war years. Anyone who knows Edinburgh, as a resident or a visitor, will be amused and entertained, surprised and moved by these stories, which capture the unique spirit of Scotland's capital city.
The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s
Author: Nicola Humble
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780198186762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The work of over thirty novelists is covered, read alongside other discourses as diverse as cookery books, child-care manuals, and the reports of Mass Observation. Investigating the nature of the feminine middlebrow and its readers, the author considers its variously radical and conservative remakings of ideas of class, the home, the family and gender."--BOOK JACKET.
