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David Kynaston

    30. Juli 1951

    David Kynaston ist ein professioneller Historiker, dessen Werke tief in die britische Geschichte eintauchen, insbesondere in die Nachkriegszeit. Sein Schreiben zeichnet sich durch akribische Recherche und fesselndes Erzählen aus, das entscheidende Momente und gesellschaftliche Stimmungen lebendig werden lässt. Kynaston konzentriert sich darauf, wie Großbritannien in kritischen Perioden geformt wurde und sich entwickelte, und bietet den Lesern einen fesselnden Einblick in die jüngste Vergangenheit. Seine Fähigkeit, große historische Ereignisse mit menschlichen Erfahrungen zu verbinden, macht ihn zu einem bedeutenden Autor in der Geschichtsschreibung.

    The City Of London Volume 3
    Shots in the Dark
    Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
    Austerity Britain 1948-51: Smoke in the Valley
    Modernity Britain
    Family Britain, 1951-1957
    • 2023
    • 2022

      Born in London, England, he was the third and youngest of the three sons of Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917) and Marie Perugia (1862-1937). A scion of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England, he was educated at Harrow School and the University of Cambridge where he secured a Double First in history. After the end of the First World War, Anthony became one of the managing partners of the family's N M Rothschild & Sons banking house in London. He retired as head of the N M Rothschild & Sons banking house in 1961. Written by renowned historian David Kynaston, Anthony de Rothschild: Banker and Philanthropist tells the story of the man who influenced modern history. De Rothschild was at the helm of international banking, steering the system from the chaos after the First World War into the modern world. The book includes rare and unseen documents and photographs from the family archive.

      Banker and philanthropist
    • 2021

      The 'real' Sixties began on 5 October 1962. On that remarkable Friday, the Beatles hit the world with their first single, 'Love Me Do', and the first James Bond film, Dr No, had its world premiere in two icons of the future heralding a social and cultural revolution.On the Cusp, continuing David Kynaston's groundbreaking history of post-war Britain, takes place during the summer and early autumn of 1962, in the charged months leading up to the moment that a country changed. The Rolling Stones' debut at the Marquee Club, the last Gentlemen versus Players match at Lord's, the issue of Britain's relationship with Europe starting to divide the country, Telstar the satellite beaming live TV pictures across the world, 'Telstar' the record a siren call to a techno future – these were months thick with incident, all woven together here with an array of fresh contemporary sources, including diarists both famous and obscure.Britain would never be the same again after these months. Sometimes indignant, sometimes admiring, always empathetic, On the Cusp evokes a world of seaside holidays, of church fetes, of Steptoe and Son – a world still of seemingly settled social and economic certainties, but in fact on the edge of fundamental change.

      On the Cusp
    • 2020

      First published in 1976. This book covers working-class history from the decline of Chartism to the formation of the Labour Party and its early development to 1914. It gives a historical perspective to the essentially defensive, materialist orientation of twentieth century working-class politics. David Kynaston has sought to synthesise the wealth of recent detailed research to produce a coherent overall view of the particular dynamic of these formative years. He sees the course of working-class history in the second half of the nineteenth century as a necessary tragedy and suggests that a major reason for this was the inability of William Morris as a revolutionary socialist to influence organised labour. The treatment is thematic as much as chronological and special attention is given not only to the parliamentary rise of Labour, but also to deeper-lying intellectual, occupational, residential, religious, and cultural influences. The text itself includes a substantial amount of contemporary material in order to reflect the distinctive 'feel' of the period. The book is particularly designed for students studying the political, social and economic background to modern Britain as well as those specialising in nineteenth-century English history.

      King Labour
    • 2020

      Till Time's Last Sand

      • 896 Seiten
      • 32 Lesestunden
      3,8(25)Abgeben

      'An exemplary narrative history, with the archives plundered judiciously ... [Kynaston's] portrait of a globally influential institution is, in characteristic style, rendered on an entertainingly human scale' The Times

      Till Time's Last Sand
    • 2020

      Brimming with wisdom and humour, David Kynaston's diaries written over one football season offer up his most personal take on social history to date. David Kynaston was seven and a half years old when he attended his first Aldershot match in the early months of 1959. So began a deep attachment to the game and a lifelong loyalty to an obscure, small-town football club. Though as he sits down to write his diaries almost sixty years on, he reflects that life might have been simpler if his father had never taken him to that first match at the Rec... Shots in the Dark is the diary David Kynaston kept in the football season of 2016/17, detailing the ups and downs of the 'Shots' in the year that saw a divisive referendum in the UK and the impending ascension of Donald Trump. Here Kynaston presents a social history of modern Britain with a difference - all through the prism of the beautiful game. A testament to the ways in which fandom gives solidity and security to our lives, particularly in these bewildering and rapidly changing times, Shots in the Dark gets to the heart of what it means to be a devoted follower of a sports team. This is a diary of the macro and the micro, as questions of loyalty, of identity, of liberalism and of nationalism all rub uncomfortably up against each other during nine charged months

      Shots in the Dark
    • 2013

      Modernity Britain

      • 432 Seiten
      • 16 Lesestunden
      4,2(66)Abgeben

      Following Austerity Britain and FamilyBritain, the third and fulcrumvolume in David Kynaston's landmark social history of post-war Britain.

      Modernity Britain
    • 2010

      Family Britain, 1951-1957

      • 784 Seiten
      • 28 Lesestunden
      4,3(51)Abgeben

      Family Britain continues David Kynaston's groundbreaking series Tales of a New Jerusalem, telling as never before the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

      Family Britain, 1951-1957
    • 2008

      David Kynaston's Austerity Britain 1945-51, the first book in his series Tales of a New Jerusalem, was a major Sunday Times bestseller in 2007. Here is the second volume from this landmark book covering 1948-51. Continuing his ground breaking series about post-war Britain, Kynaston presents a breathtaking portrait of our nation through eyewitness accounts, newspapers of the time and previously unpublished diaries. Drawing on the everyday experiences of people from all walks of life, "Smoke in the Valley" covers the length and breadth of the country to tell its story. This is an unsurpassed social history: intensely evocative to those who were there and eye-opening for their children and grandchildren.

      Austerity Britain 1948-51: Smoke in the Valley