Politics of the Past by David Cowan - 9781009340281

Politics of the PastInter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 19392009\nAuthor(s): David Cowan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009340281, 978-1009340281\nSynopsis\nThe inter-war period [tel] is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war period between parents and children around the dinner table; among workmates at the pub shaped these understandings. In turn, these fed into popular politics. Stories about the embryonic welfare system in the early-twentieth century informed how people felt towards the National Health Service; memories of the Great Depression shaped arguments about state intervention in the economy. Challenging accounts of widespread political disengagement in the twentieth century, Politics of the Past shows how re-telling family stori.