Elizabethans : How Modern Britain Was Forged
ISBN: 9780008298418
Author | Marr, Andrew |
Pub Date | 01/10/2020 |
Binding | Trade PB |
Country | IRL |
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Quick overview Celebrating activists and artists, sports heroes and business leaders, this book moves from Sylvia Plath to Elvis Costello, Frank Critchlow to Bob Geldof, Winston Churchill to Marcus Rashford, Zaha Hadid to James Dyson, Dusty Springfield to David Attenborough.Through these sung and unsung titans of the modern Elizabethan era, this is a history that gets to the heart of how 1950s Britain evolved into the diverse, contradictory and divided country it is today.