Hoop skirts and ponytails : a fifties memoir /
by Hyams, Jacky.
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BookPublisher: London : John Blake, 2016Description: 288 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781786061393 (pbk.) :; 1786061392 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 941.0855 HYASubject(s): Hyams, Jacky -- Anecdotes | Nineteen fifties | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- | Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 1945-1964 | History | HistorySummary: While thirteen-year-old East End schoolgirl Jacky Hyams is happily obsessed with Elvis, the country she lives in is undergoing a seismic social change. All around her, people are shaking off the drab austerity years after the Second World War. However, it is the dramatic cultural shift that sparks rifts between generations, as bewildered parents struggle to cope with the teenage rebellion against the old-fashioned attitudes. For Jacky, and so many like her, these tempting changes lead to a growing determination to break free of the traditional East End way of life.
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| 941.0854 ALL Demobbed: coming home after the Second World War | 941.0854 BAR The lost victory: British dreams, British realities, 1945-1950 | 941.0854 KYN Austerity Britain : 1945-51 / | 941.0855 HYA Hoop skirts and ponytails : a fifties memoir / | 941.0855 KEL 'You've never had it so good!': recollections of life in the 1950s | 941.0855 KYN Modernity Britain, 1957-59 | 941.0855 KYN Modernity Britain: a shake of the dice, 1959-62 |
While thirteen-year-old East End schoolgirl Jacky Hyams is happily obsessed with Elvis, the country she lives in is undergoing a seismic social change. All around her, people are shaking off the drab austerity years after the Second World War. However, it is the dramatic cultural shift that sparks rifts between generations, as bewildered parents struggle to cope with the teenage rebellion against the old-fashioned attitudes. For Jacky, and so many like her, these tempting changes lead to a growing determination to break free of the traditional East End way of life.
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