TY - BOOK AU - Annan,Noel Gilroy TI - Our age: the generation that made post-war Britain SN - 0006377122 (pbk) U1 - 941.085 PY - 1991/// CY - London PB - Fontana KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Elizabeth II, 1952-2022 KW - George VI, 1936-1952 KW - Intellectual life KW - 20th century N1 - 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 ER -