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Graves, Robert and Hodge, Alan, - THE LONG WEEK-END - A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939.

Title: THE LONG WEEK-END - A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939.
Description: Readers' Union, London, 1941, club edn., 472pp, red buckram lettered and ruled in silver at spine with publishers device in blind, an early almost contemporary social history of Great Britain between the wars, covering such topics as the armistice, averting revolution, emancipation of women (abandonment of the whalebone, short hair and short skirts, the vote, the flapper), sex (mainly as considered by Freud and Marie Stopes), amusements (dances, motoring picnics, rambling), etc., a little rubbed at extrems., some sunning to cloth, edges tanned, repaired nick fore-edge front free endpaper, no dustwrapper, very good,

Keywords: british social history week-end armistice politics amusements performing arts literature religion education sport depression fitness

Price: GBP 6.00 = appr. US$ 8.57 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 40829

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