1970s Childhood

by Liza Hollinghurst

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784423292
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/21/2019
Series:	Shire Library , #859
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Liza Hollinghurst, herself a child of the 1970s, has had over thirty magazine articles published since 2013, specialising in twentieth-century social history and vintage lifestyle. Liza's first book, Vintage Knitting, was published by Shire in 2015.

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