It is a commonplace to describe epochs in terms of feelings, moods and passions: the 1960s, we are told, swing; the 1950s are cool, austere, and conformist; the 1980s were a greedy decade.
Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from Georg Simmel's cultural sociology, through the Mass-Observation project of the thirties to theorists such as Michel Curteau.
Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, which many thought would be dissolved by mass consumption, was remade in the postwar period... Læs mere
It is a commonplace to describe epochs in terms of feelings, moods and passions: the 1960s, we are told, swing; the 1950s are cool, austere, and conformist; the 1980s were a greedy decade.
Shows how post-war pioneers reimagined what playgrounds could be.