Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

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You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. This is an engrossing, scholarly account of a time when London was in transformation . . . and one that will interest Londoners and non-Londoners alike."—Martin Chilton, The Independent We aim to leave a lasting legacy for our communities, supporting our vision that everyone deserves a great place to live. All times are local time for Brussels. They take into account refraction. Dates are based on the Gregorian calendar. Today is highlighted.

Like the Kinks classic to which the title playfully alludes, Waterloo Sunrise is infectious, full of human detail, and generous in its narrative sweep."—Matthew d’Ancona, Tortoise Media If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. Waterloo Sunrise, an original, superbly written, and immaculately researched book by John Davis, has the merit not only of being a serious work of social history but also of being one that lifts up the stone to reveal aspects of London life between the early 1960s and the advent of Mrs. Thatcher. . . . Davis is as perceptive in describing the decline of the 1970s as he is in detailing the excitement of London in the 1960s."—Simon Heffer, New Criterion John Davis charts the complexities of these important decades in London’s recent history with great brilliance. . . . A sure-footed and unrivalled guide."—Jerry White, Times Literary Supplement This is a book I will be using as a research source for many years to come."—Geoff Nicholson, Los Angeles Review of Books

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For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. There is a wealth of information and cogent analysis in this book. It is well-researched with a very full scholarly apparatus. . . . [A] highly entertaining work."—Alan Clarke, Open History Journal

I absolutely love this book. It is wonderfully wide-ranging, urbane and amusing, and so clearly the result of exceptionally deep research. I am confident it will be a classic of London history, and ought to have a very wide readership.”—Otto Saumarez Smith, author of Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain The Park Rise scheme (formerly Solar Serena Sunrise) will create a high-quality older persons retirement village in the heart of Hornchurch, next to Harrow Lodge Park. Davis is a magnificent tour guide for the world he has reconstructed. . . . He shows us how London stopped being so boring, what we gained and what we lost."—Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, London Review of Books

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