This is the tenth of the 1940s and the 21st book overall to be released in a series of 31 about life in Australia – one for each year from 1939 to 1969. They describe happenings that affected people, real people. The whole series, to coin a modern phrase, is designed to push your buttons, to make you remember and wonder at things forgotten. The ......
13th in a series of 33 books covering life in Australia in each year 1939-1971. Based largely on major daily newspapers, highlights main events and typical stories, such as Hire Purchase, electric mowers and vaccuum cleaners, controversy over sport on Sundays, national service and the Korean War.
8th in a series of 30 books covering life in Australia in each year 1939-1968. Based largely on major daily newspapers, highlights main events and typical stories in engaging, conversational style, such as war brides, rationing, polio and TB. A great gift for hard-to-buy for 70 year old relatives and friends; entertaining, instructive and charming.
20th in a series of 30 books covering life in Australia in each year 1939-1968. Based largely on major daily newspapers, highlights main events and typical stories, such as different Church views on gambling, the Herseys sent to Coventry, the Queen Mothers visit, school milk and bread home deliveries
This is the ninth of the 1940s and the eighteenth book overall to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia – one for each year from 1939 to 1968. They describe happenings that affected people, real people. The whole series, to coin a modern phrase, is designed to push your buttons, to make you remember and wonder at things ......
15th in a series of 30 books covering life in Australia in each year 1939-1968. Based largely on major daily newspapers, highlights main events and typical stories, such as excitement about the Queens coronation, changing views on childbirth, Thallium poisoning, and British migrants returning home
6th in a series of 32 books covering life in Australia in each year 1939-1970. Based largely on major daily newspapers, highlights main events and typical stories, such as Australia breathing easier as the end of war looked likely, but still many of our people dying, and heavily rationed, Big Government everywhere, strikes becoming popular.
This is the seventh of the 1950s and the thirteenth book overall to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia – one for each year from 1939 to 1968. They describe happenings that affected people, real people. The whole series, to coin a modern phrase, is designed to push your buttons, to make you remember and wonder at things ......
16th in a series of 30 books covering life in Australia in each year 1939-1968. Based largely on major daily newspapers, highlights main events and typical stories, such as the Queens visit, the Petrov spy scandal, hotel opening hours, visiting American entertainers, changing views on crime and punishment, and atomic bomb testing.
