Modernity Britain

All the usual things that we have come to expect are here - the politics, sports events, cultural happenings and, perhaps most interestingly, diary excerpts from a wide range of people. I’m assuming that Mass Observation are less active in this period (1957 to 1962) as we don’t hear much from them at all. It might be nice to hear some new voices as David seems to rely on just a small number of diarists and we can almost predict what they might say about any given subject but perhaps sources are limited. As you might expect for someone born not long after the period covered in the book there are an increasing number of names from politics and culture that I am familiar with from my childhood and it is interesting to see how they began and how they were initially received. The section on town planning and redevelopment did get a little tedious and went on a bit too much but again I’m guessing that at the time it was a big thing, was impacting many lives and the subject of a lot of…

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