Rule, nostalgia : a backwards history of Britain / Hannah Rose Woods.
By: Woods, Hannah Rose [author.]
.Publisher: London : WH Allen, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, 2022Description: 393 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780753558737.Subject(s): Nostalgia -- Great Britain -- History | National characteristics, British | Great Britain -- Social life and customs | Great Britain -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 941 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 941 WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 021981 |
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| 941 WAR War and society in medieval and early modern Britain / | 941 WHE Scottish county government : | 941 WOO In search of England : | 941 WOO Rule, nostalgia : a backwards history of Britain / | 941 WOR Court, Kirk, and community : Scotland 1470-1625 / | 941 WOR A world by itself : | 941 YOU The Scottish Parliament : |
Introduction : nostalgia tells it like it wasn't -- Keep calm and take back control : 2021-1979 -- I was Lord Kitchener's valet : 1979-1940 -- The end of the garden party : 1940-1914 -- Never never land : 1914-1880 -- Those infernal and damnably good old times : 1880-1789 -- Decline and fall : 1789-1688 -- The Committee for the Demolition of Monuments : 1688-1530 -- Conclusion : in the past, even the future was better.
"Longing to go back to the 'good old days' is nothing new. For hundreds of years, the British have mourned the loss of tradition and called for a revival of 'simpler', 'better' ways of life, from modern politicians indulging in fantasies of an imperial past, to Victorian artists yearning to retreat into a medieval dream of 'Merry England'. But were the 'good old days' ever quite how we remember them? 'Rule, nostalgia' is a surprising, timely new history of Britain that separates the history from the fantasy and traces back to its origins the powerful influence that nostalgia's perpetual backwards glance has had on British history, politics and society."-- Taken from publishers' website
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