Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain 1921-2010Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the elation, anger, doubts, jealousy, joys and fears of people as they record their own and the nation's triumphs and disasters. To this potent mix she adds the mordant perceptions of observers like Virginia Woolf, Cecil Beaton, Peter Hall and Roy Strong, and the vivid records of everyday life found in the diaries of otherwise ordinary men and women. |
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The Diarists | |
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Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain 1921 To 2010 Ruth Winstone No preview available - 2014 |
Events, Dear Boy, Events: Political Diaries of Britain from the Great War to ... Ruth Winstone No preview available - 2012 |