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David Kynaston
A WATERSTONES, TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive'…
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Born in London, England, he was the third and youngest of the three sons of Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917) and Marie Perugia (1862-1937). A scion of the prominent Rothschild banking…
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The groundbreaking series that will tell the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the coming of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 as never before
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‘Glorious … It’s rare to read anything so teeming with life’ SPECTATOR, Books of the Year
‘This is Kynaston at his best … A rich and vivid picture of a…
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'An epic contest superbly retold . . . a fascinating slice of social history, it is a spellbinding read' Vic Marks 'A scrupulous and subtle evocation of one's of cricket's…
Family Britain continues David Kynaston’s groundbreaking series Tales of a New Jerusalem, telling as never before the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret…
Modernity Britain, 1957-1963, continues David Kynaston’s groundbreaking series Tales of a New Jerusalem, telling as never before the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of…
A fascinating examination of cricket in the nineteenth century by ‘the most entertaining historian alive’ (Spectator)
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The authorised history of the Bank of England by the bestselling David Kynaston, ‘the most entertaining historian alive’ (Spectator).
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Kynaston takes us through the City’s vain attempt to recover the glory days before the First World War, in the return to the Gold Standard. He follows its tussles with…
Tells the story of the London’s nineteenth century ascent to its position as the world’s leading international financial centre. This work discusses the rise of the merchant banks, the growth…
A social and economic history showing how it was possible for the City of London to become all-dominant as Britain’s gold-standard reigned across the globe. The dangerously close relationship between…
First published in 1976. This book covers working-class history from the decline of Chartism to the formation of the Labour Party and its early development to 1914. The book is…
Brimming with wisdom and humour, David Kynaston’s diaries written over one football season offer up his most personal take on social history to date.
David Kynaston was seven and a…
‘I loved every page, and ended up admiring David Kynaston, our greatest social historian, even more than I already did’ Nick Hornby
Brimming with wisdom and humour, David Kynaston’s diaries…
‘An exemplary narrative history, with the archives plundered judiciously … [Kynaston’s] portrait of a globally influential institution is, in characteristic style, rendered on an entertainingly human scale’ The Times
David Kynaston,Francis Green
A rigorous, compelling and balanced examination of the British private school system and the lifetime inequalities it entrenches
Marghanita Laski
A 1948 satire by one of Persephone Book’s bestselling authors, Marghanita Laski. Five people are returning to Britain after the Second World War when their ship is caught in a…
Stephen Fay,David Kynaston
A fascinating account of how two BBC broadcasters battled for the soul of English cricket during a time of great social change
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The Bank of England has played a crucial if sometimes little understood role in the life of the nation. This work aims to assess the major themes in the Bank’s…
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Mr Richard King
Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.
Mollie Panter-Downes,David Kynaston
These extraordinary ‘Letters from London’, describing everyday life in WW2, were written for The New Yorker and then collected in one volume in 1971.
Polly Braden,David Kynaston,Michael Bracewell
Street photographs that shed light on modern life in the heart of London’s historic financial district.
Richard King
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