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Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

English

By (author): Dr John Davis John Davis

A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London forever

Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war emerged as a vibrant yet divided metropolis. John Davis paints lively and colorful portraits of life in the British capital, covering topics as varied as the rise and fall of boutique fashion, Soho and the sex trade, eating out in London, cabbies and tourists, gentrification, conservation, suburbia and the welfare state.

With vivid and immersive scene-setting, Davis traces how swinging London captured the worlds attention in the mid-sixties, discarding postwar austerity as it built a global reputation for youthful confidence and innovative music and fashion. He charts the slow erosion of mid-sixties optimism, showing how a newly prosperous city grappled with problems of deindustrialisation, inner-city blight and racial friction. Davis reveals how London underwent a complex evolution that reflected an underlying tension between majority affluence and minority deprivation. He argues that the London that had taken shape by the time of Margaret Thatchers election as prime minister in 1979 already displayed many of the features that would come to be associated with Thatchers Britain of the eighties.

Monumental in scope, Waterloo Sunrise draws on a wealth of archival evidence to provide an evocative, engrossing account of Britains ever-evolving capital city.

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  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780691220529

About Dr John DavisJohn Davis

John Davis is emeritus fellow in modern history and politics at The Queens College University of Oxford and the author of Reforming London: The London Government Problem 18551900 and A History of Britain 18851939.

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