Second City
A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022There is unlikely to be a fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinens Jonathan Coe, Financial TimesVinen has written a history of Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also, perhaps, a theory of England. I buy it Daily TelegraphFor over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England. In his richly enjoyable new book Richard Vinen captures the drama of a small village that grew to become the quintessential city of the twentieth century a place of mass production and full employment that began in the 1930s, but which came to a cataclysmic halt in the 1980s. Birmingham has also been a magnet for migration, drawing in people from Wales, Ireland, India, Pakistan and the Caribbean. Indeed, much of British history can be explained, in large measure, with reference to Birmingham. Vinen roots his sweeping story in the experience of individuals. This is a book about figures everyone has heard of, from J. R. R. Tolkien to Duran Duran, and also about those that everyone ought to have heard of. It captures the ways in which hundreds of thousands of people from the Welsh miners who poured into the car factories in the 1930s to the young women who danced to reggae in the basement of Rebeccas nightclub in the 1980s were caught up in the convulsions of social change. Birmingham is not a pretty place, and its history does not always make for comfortable reading. But modern Britain does not make... | Richard Vinen Second City : Birmingham & the Forging of Modern Britain
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A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022There is unlikely to be a fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinens Jonathan Coe, Financial TimesVinen has written a history of Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also, perhaps, a theory of England. I buy it Daily TelegraphFor over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England. In his richly enjoyable new book Richard Vinen captures the drama of a small village that grew to become the quintessential city of the twentieth century a place of mass production and full employment that began in the 1930s, but which came to a cataclysmic halt in the 1980s. Birmingham has also been a magnet for migration, drawing in people from Wales, Ireland, India, Pakistan and the Caribbean. Indeed, much of British history can be explained, in large measure, with reference to Birmingham. Vinen roots his sweeping story in the experience of individuals. This is a book about figures everyone has heard of, from J. R. R. Tolkien to Duran Duran, and also about those that everyone ought to have heard of. It captures the ways in which hundreds of thousands of people from the Welsh miners who poured into the car factories in the 1930s to the young women who danced to reggae in the basement of Rebeccas nightclub in the 1980s were caught up in the convulsions of social change. Birmingham is not a pretty place, and its history does not always make for comfortable reading. But modern Britain does not make... | Richard Vinen Second City : Birmingham & the Forging of Modern Britain
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A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022There is unlikely to be a fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinens Jonathan Coe, Financial TimesVinen has written a history of Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also, perhaps, a theory of England. I buy it Daily TelegraphFor over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England. In his richly enjoyable new book Richard Vinen captures the drama of a small village that grew to become the quintessential city of the twentieth century a place of mass production and full employment that began in the 1930s, but which came to a cataclysmic halt in the 1980s. Birmingham has also been a magnet for migration, drawing in people from Wales, Ireland, India, Pakistan and the Caribbean. Indeed, much of British history can be explained, in large measure, with reference to Birmingham. Vinen roots his sweeping story in the experience of individuals. This is a book about figures everyone has heard of, from J. R. R. Tolkien to Duran Duran, and also about those that everyone ought to have heard of. It captures the ways in which hundreds of thousands of people from the Welsh miners who poured into the car factories in the 1930s to the young women who danced to reggae in the basement of Rebeccas nightclub in the 1980s were caught up in the convulsions of social change. Birmingham is not a pretty place, and its history does not always make for comfortable reading. But modern Britain does not make... | Richard Vinen Second City : Birmingham & the Forging of Modern Britain
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format | paperback |
Language | english |
type | book |
Color | multicolor |
Gender | unisex |
Size | small |
Brand | Richard Vinen |
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