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Matthew Engel - The Reign - Book Talk
A joint event organised with and benefitting The Friends of St Mary's Ross on Wye.
Matthew Engel will talk about his new book, The Reign Part One - The first part of his sweeping social history of modern Britain during the reign of Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, Winston Churchill was prime minister, sweets were rationed, mums stayed at home and kids played on bombsites. In the seventy years that followed everything changed utterly - except the Queen herself, ageing far more gracefully than the fractious nation with which she became synonymous.
While the Queen is the motif for this book, the story Engel tells is not about her - it is primarily about the British. Through original research, interviews with people who were there and his own memories of the time, Matthew Engel traces the transformation of life in Britain as never before.
Beginning with the death of King George VI and ending on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's election, Engel not only covers all the major historical events but also explores everyday life - from the food we ate and where we shopped, to what we watched on television and the newspapers we read. In doing so, he brings these three decades to life with his own light touch and a wealth of fascinating, forgotten, often funny detail.
Matthew lives in Herefordshire and has written various other books including Tickle the Public, Extracts from the Red Notebooks, Eleven Minutes Late, Engel’s England, That’s the Way It Crumbles.
This books is Part 1 of The Reign with Part 2 scheduled for 2025.
He has also edited many editions of Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack.
Matthew Engel will talk about his new book, The Reign Part One - The first part of his sweeping social history of modern Britain during the reign of Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, Winston Churchill was prime minister, sweets were rationed, mums stayed at home and kids played on bombsites. In the seventy years that followed everything changed utterly - except the Queen herself, ageing far more gracefully than the fractious nation with which she became synonymous.
While the Queen is the motif for this book, the story Engel tells is not about her - it is primarily about the British. Through original research, interviews with people who were there and his own memories of the time, Matthew Engel traces the transformation of life in Britain as never before.
Beginning with the death of King George VI and ending on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's election, Engel not only covers all the major historical events but also explores everyday life - from the food we ate and where we shopped, to what we watched on television and the newspapers we read. In doing so, he brings these three decades to life with his own light touch and a wealth of fascinating, forgotten, often funny detail.
Matthew lives in Herefordshire and has written various other books including Tickle the Public, Extracts from the Red Notebooks, Eleven Minutes Late, Engel’s England, That’s the Way It Crumbles.
This books is Part 1 of The Reign with Part 2 scheduled for 2025.
He has also edited many editions of Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack.
Wednesday 26 Apr 2023
ST Marys Church Ross on Wye Herefordshire HR9 5HN
£8 offering £3 off the book, The Reign, at the eventdoors open 6.30 talk starts at 7pm
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