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Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically been portrayed as a time of unremitting poverty, rising crime and mass unemployment. In Martin Pugh's lively and thought-provoking new book, however, the acclaimed historian vividly shows how the British people reacted to the privations of wartime by indulging in leisure and entertainment activities of all kinds - from dancing and cinema going to smoking, football pools and paid holidays. He explodes the myths of a nation of unwed women, revealing that in the 1930s the institution of marriage was reaching its heyday, and points to a rise in real incomes, improvements in diet and health and the spread of cheap luxuries. The result is an extraordinary, engaging work of history that presents us with a fresh perspective and brings out both the strangeness and the familiarity of this point in time.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: We Danced All Night
• Author: Martin Pugh
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528
• EAN: 9781844139231
• ISBN: 1844139239
• ID: 04263090
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 364 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 131 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. July 2009

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