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1970s Childhood

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1970s Childhood

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A 1970s childhood was, for many, a life of happy-go-lucky freedom set against a soundtrack of pop music played on a transistor radio dangling from the handlebars of a Raleigh Chopper. It was a playground battlefield of Sindy versus Action Man or a dexterous display of how to handle Clackers without painfully rapping them across the knuckles. After-school television meant a choice of 'Blue Peter' or 'Magpie', while chewing on an Aztec chocolate bar and flicking through Shoot or Jackie magazine. Yet it was also a decade of strikes, the three-day week and the Winter of Discontent which passed most children by unless a power cut meant no television. This fully illustrated book is a celebration of that childhood, its highs, lows and scraped knees, that will readily bring back the forgotten memories of a generation that grew up without mobile phones, the internet and 24-hour shopping.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Welcome Home: Family Life
The Best Days of Your Life: School
Extra Helpings: Food and Drink
Running Free: Recreation
Page-Turners: Books and Magazines
Switched on: Television
The Beat Goes On: Popular Music
You Wear it Well: Fashion
Epilogue
Further Reading
Image Acknowledgements
Places to Visit
Index

Product details

Published 21 Mar 2019
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 64
ISBN 9781784423285
Imprint Shire Publications
Dimensions 210 x 149 mm
Series Shire Library
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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