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Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties

Peter Hennessy

The author takes his readers into the front-rooms where the Coronation was watched on television, to the classrooms and new coffee bars of 1950s Britain - and also into the secret Cabinet rooms in which decisions about the British nuclear bomb were taken and plans made for the catastrophe of nuclear war.

HistoryHistory · high confidenceHistory81 signalsLlm Classifier: History -> HistoryGoogle Books: History -> HistoryTopic Classifier: Business Biography -> BiographyBusiness BiographyLiterature & WritersClass, Poverty & Inequality

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Orwell Prize: Combined Book Prize (Nonfiction works)2007WinnerSecondary source
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionMajor2007FinalistSecondary source
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