✦ LIBER ✦

Nella Last in the 1950s

✍ Scribed by Patricia; Malcolmson, Robert (editor)

Book ID: 109204324
Publisher: Profile Books
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 804 KB
Series: Housewife, 49 3
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781847652867

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. Sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed the first two volumes of her uniquely detailed and moving diaries, written during World War II and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project, and the basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49 starring Victoria Wood (with a follow-up under discussion). This third compelling volume sees Nella, now in her sixties, writing of what ordinary people felt during those years of growing prosperity in a modernising Britain. Her diary offers a detailed, moving and humorous narrative of daily life at a time that shaped the society we live in today. It is an account that's full of surprises as we learn more about her relationship with 'my husband' (never 'Will') and her fears of nuclear war. Outwardly Nella's life was commonplace; but behind this mask were...

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Nella Last's Peace

✍ Patricia; Malcolmson, Robert (editor) 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Profile Books 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing. Nella, 55 when the war ends, writes of what ordinary people felt during those yea

The Diaries of Nella Last- Writing in War and Peace

✍ Patricia Malcolmson; Robert Malcolmson 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Profile Books 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her vivid and moving diaries, written during the Secon

THE 1950s

✍ John Fraser Hart 📂 Article 📅 1979 🏛 Taylor and Francis Group 🌐 English ⚖ 598 KB

The 1950s Kitchen

✍ Ferry, Kathryn 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Osprey Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 7 MB

The 1950s was the first great age of the modern kitchen: labor-saving appliances, bright colors and the novelty of fitted units moved the kitchen from dankness into light, where it became the domain of the happy housewife and the heart of the home. Formica - a new space-age material - decorated with

SOCIALIST LITERATURE IN THE 1950s

✍ BERNARD CRICK 📂 Article 📅 1960 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 724 KB

Scotland's health in 1950

📂 Article 📅 1950 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 233 KB