Our age : the generation that made post-war Britain /
Annan, Noel Gilroy, Baron Annan, 1916-2000.
Our age : the generation that made post-war Britain / Noel Annan. - London : Fontana, 1991. - x, 641p.
Originally published: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990.
Our age -- The insufferable ideal -- The public schools -- Modernism -- Pacifism -- The change in manners and morals -- The growth of the cult of homosexuality -- The cult flourishes -- Our age reforms the laws -- Reaping the whirlwind -- The deviants : Evelyn Waugh -- Our age forms political loyalties -- The obsession with Munich -- The roaring forties -- The Cambridge spies -- The impact of the German renaissance -- Historizismus and history -- Science, art and wealth -- How our age discussed morality -- The deviants : F.R. Leavis -- Was our age responsible for Britain's decline? -- Our age reforms education -- The dons learn bitter realities -- The deviants : Michael Oakeshott -- Our political leaders -- Our vision of life rejected -- The sixth age shifts.
0006377122 (pbk)
GB9147701 bnb
Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952-2022
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--20th century.
941.085
Our age : the generation that made post-war Britain / Noel Annan. - London : Fontana, 1991. - x, 641p.
Originally published: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990.
Our age -- The insufferable ideal -- The public schools -- Modernism -- Pacifism -- The change in manners and morals -- The growth of the cult of homosexuality -- The cult flourishes -- Our age reforms the laws -- Reaping the whirlwind -- The deviants : Evelyn Waugh -- Our age forms political loyalties -- The obsession with Munich -- The roaring forties -- The Cambridge spies -- The impact of the German renaissance -- Historizismus and history -- Science, art and wealth -- How our age discussed morality -- The deviants : F.R. Leavis -- Was our age responsible for Britain's decline? -- Our age reforms education -- The dons learn bitter realities -- The deviants : Michael Oakeshott -- Our political leaders -- Our vision of life rejected -- The sixth age shifts.
0006377122 (pbk)
GB9147701 bnb
Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952-2022
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--20th century.
941.085