Ten Generations: A Family Story from Rags to Riches - Couverture souple

Lowcock, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1800461283 ISBN 13 : 9781800461284

Editeur : Matador, 2021

Synopsis

Piecing together the story of more than one hundred of his ancestors across the British Isles and beyond from the 1650s to the 1950s, Mark Lowcock presents an extraordinary piece of social and family history in his new book Ten Generations: A Family Story from Rags to Riches.

They were ordinary people: barmen, carpenters, coal miners, dockers, domestic servants, dressmakers, glass blowers, labourers, sailors, shop assistants and textile workers. Ten Generations documents their gradual escape from grinding poverty and oppression through the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution and the wild oscillations of the first half of the twentieth century, to a position of relative prosperity and freedom.  

Ranging widely across food, clothes, education, living conditions, healthcare, work, religion, rights and social mores, travel, sex and entertainment, Ten Generations is a compelling depiction of the joys and strains of life and how it changed for the better for ordinary people as the centuries passed.

Described by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as:
“A must read...a great achievement...eminently readable.”  

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Lowcock is the head of humanitarian affairs at the United Nations. He is married to Dr Julia Watson, a health economist, and they have three grown-up children and seven nephews and nieces. He was knighted in 2017 for services to international development and has written opinion pieces for, among others, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, The Washington Post and Le Monde. All the author’s proceeds are being donated to non-profit organisations fighting COVID-19.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Matador
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1800461283
• ISBN 13: 9781800461284
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible