We Have Come to Be Destroyed - Laura Tisdall

How does modern British history look when seen through the eyes of those not yet grown up?  In newly affluent 1950s Britain, ideas about adulthood and childhood began to change radically. Adults married, bought houses, and had children far sooner, and were conceived as self-sufficient, altruistic good citizens. Children and teenagers, conversely, were heavily regulated, imagined as fragile, vulnerable, or deviant, their voices excluded from civic and political conversation. But Britain’s young... Zobrazit více