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The Lost Album: A Visual History of 1950s Britain

The Lost Album: A Visual History of 1950s Britain

The Lost Album: A Visual History of 1950s Britain

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112378
      • Product Description: Basil Hyman, a keen amateur photographer, took hundreds of photographs of everyday life in Britain during the 1950s. The Lost Album is a nostalgic look back at this long-gone era, filled with photographs made during a time of enormous social change - just after World War II and before the "Swinging Sixties" - and a wealth of ephemera: theater tickets and playbills, newspaper advertisements, ration books, and much more. Special inserts include actual facsimiles of some of these now-obscure items, talismans from a slower time, when formality, pride, and courtesy prevailed.

        There are special sections on two major events: the Festival of Britain in 1951, and the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. With brief, lively introductions and captions, this is a captivating snapshot of how people lived and played in Britain in those years.

        Basil Hyman is the author, with Steven Braggs, of The G-Plan Revolution. He is the third generation of a family that has been in the furniture business since the 1920s, and has taken photographs all his life.
      • generic_text_8: Hardback
      • generic_text_3: Basil Hyman
      • generic_text_4: 01-Mar-11
      • generic_text_5: 300 pages
      • generic_text_2: 31.2 x 25.1 x 3 cm
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