往事如是:1952-1979年伊丽莎白时代的英国生活 The the Way It Was: Life in Elizabeths Britain, 1952-1979

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 640 pages, 3x8pp b&w plates

Publisher:Atlantic Books

Imprint:Atlantic Books

Edition:Main

ISBN:9781786496690

Published:31 Aug 2023

Weight:530g

Dimensions:129 x 198 x 43 (mm)

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书籍简介

“这是一部关于战后英国的杰作，每一页都令人愉悦和豁然开朗。”大卫·凯纳斯顿这是马修·恩格尔对伊丽莎白二世统治时期现代英国社会史的一部分。1952 年，女王即位，当时英国已经是一个幅员辽阔的帝国，温斯顿·丘吉尔担任首相，糖果实行定量配给，妈妈们呆在家里，孩子们在危险现场玩耍。在随后的 70 年里，一切都发生了翻天覆地的变化——除了女王本人，她老去的速度比与她同义的这个叛逆的国家要优雅得多。虽然女王是这本书的主题，但恩格尔讲述的故事并不是关于女王的——它主要是关于英国人的。通过原创研究、对当时人们的采访以及自己对当时的记忆，马修·恩格尔追溯了英国生活的变化。从乔治六世国王去世开始到玛格丽特·撒切尔当选前夕结束，恩格尔不仅涵盖了所有重大历史事件，还探索了日常生活——从我们吃的食物、我们购物的地方，到我们看的电视节目和我们读的报纸。

'A tour de force about post-war Britain which delights and illuminates on every page.' David Kynaston The first part of Matthew Engel's sweeping social history of modern Britain during the reign of Elizabeth II. She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, Winston Churchill was prime minister, sweets were rationed, mums stayed at home and kids played on bombsites. In the seventy years that followed everything changed utterly - except the Queen herself, ageing far more gracefully than the fractious nation with which she became synonymous. While the Queen is the motif for this book, the story Engel tells is not about her - it is primarily about the British. Through original research, interviews with people who were there and his own memories of the time, Matthew Engel traces the transformation of life in Britain as never before. Beginning with the death of King George VI and ending on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's election, Engel not only covers all the major historical events but also explores everyday life - from the food we ate and where we shopped, to what we watched on television and the newspapers we read.

作者简介

马修·恩格尔是一名记者和作家。他曾为《卫报》和《金融时报》等出版物撰稿，并担任《Wisden Cricketers' Almanack》编辑十二年。他的著作包括《迟到十一分钟》和《恩格尔的英格兰》。

Matthew Engel is a journalist and author. He has written for the Guardian and Financial Times, among other publications, and was the editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for twelve years. His books include Eleven Minutes Late and Engel's England.