The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

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Juliet Gardiner. The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

CONTENTS

PREFACE

A NOTE ON MONEY

PROLOGUE The Eve of the Decade

ONE Goodbye to All That

TWO A Great Clearance

THREE Dole Country

FOUR Mapping Britain

FIVE Hungry Britain

CODA The ‘Hatry Crash’

PROLOGUE R101 Disaster

SIX ‘Can We Conquer Unemployment?’

SEVEN (Too Much) Time to Spare

EIGHT The Hard Road Travelled

NINE Primers for the Age

CODA Searching for the Gleam

PROLOGUE Follies

TEN Accommodating the Octopus

ELEVEN Accommodating the People

TWELVE Accommodating Other People

THIRTEEN Grand Designs

CODA The Edge of the World

FOURTEEN The King is Dead

FIFTEEN ‘I am Spain …’

SIXTEEN Wanting the Palm not the Dust

PROLOGUE An Iceberg on Fire

SEVENTEEN Choosing Between Gas Masks and God’s Tasks

EIGHTEEN A1 Men and Consuming Women

NINETEEN Holy Deadlock

TWENTY Regimenting Mass Happiness

TWENTY-ONE Spittoons in Arcadia

TWENTY-TWO Dreamland

TWENTY-THREE Not Cricket

CODA ‘The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself…’

TWENTY-FOUR A Scenic Ride to Catastrophe

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Copyright

About the Publisher

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JULIET GARDINER

The Thirties

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Seated upon your unsubstantial throne —

A transient triumph — then the long alone —

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