Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain - Softcover

Woods, Hannah Rose

 
9780753558744: Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0753558742 ISBN 13: 9780753558744
Verlag: WH Allen, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

** A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR **

'A must read' - Janina Ramirez, bestselling author of Femina

'An eye-opening history of Britain's enduring fixation with its own past' - Jeremy Paxman

'Rule, Nostalgia announces Woods as one of the most interesting new historians of her generation' - Dan Snow


Longing to go back to the 'good old days' is nothing new. For hundreds of years, the British have mourned the loss of tradition and called for a revival of 'simpler', 'better' ways of life, from modern politicians indulging in fantasies of an imperial past, to Victorian artists yearning to retreat into a medieval dream of Merry England. But were the 'good old days' ever quite how we remember them?

Rule, Nostalgia is a surprising, timely new history of Britain that separates the history from the fantasy and traces back to its origins the powerful influence that nostalgia's perpetual backwards glance has had on British history, politics and society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hannah Rose Woods is a writer and cultural historian. She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she taught modern British history, and in 2016 captained her college's team to victory on that most nostalgic of television programmes, University Challenge. She has written on history, politics and culture for the New Statesman, the Guardian, History Today, Art UK and Elle magazine, and has appeared as a contributor on Dan Snow's History Hit Podcast, Tortoise Media ThinkIns, BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 4's Front Row, the Today programme, The World at One and The World Tonight to discuss topics including nostalgia, public history, Victorian culture, gender equality and universities.

Twitter: @hannahrosewoods

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Verlag
WH Allen
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0753558742
ISBN 13 
9780753558744
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
400
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Penguin Random House Ireland Limited
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Irland

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