Our age : the generation that made post-war Britain / Noel Annan.
By: Annan, Noel Gilroy, Baron Annan
.Publisher: London : Fontana, 1991Description: x, 641p.ISBN: 0006377122 (pbk).Note: Signed by author.Gift: Lord Baker.Subject(s): Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952-2022
| Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952 | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 941.085 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 941.085 ANN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Gift: Lord Baker. | 008967 |
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.
Signed by author.
Gift: Lord Baker.