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The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers. From all over the world thousands of individuals took the plunge. Most assumed they would spend just three or four years here, sending most of their pay back home, but instead large numbers stayed - and transformed the country. Drawing on an amazing array of unusual and surprising sources, Clair Wills' wonderful new book brings to life the incredible diversity and strangeness of the migrant experience. She introduces us to lovers, scroungers, dancers, homeowners, teachers, drinkers, carers and many more to show the opportunities and excitement as much as the humiliation and poverty that could be part of the new arrivals' experience. Irish, Bengalis, West Indians, Poles, Maltese, Punjabis and Cypriots battled to fit into an often shocked Britain and, to their own surprise, found themselves making permanent homes.
Llegir més - Autor/a Clair Wills
- ISBN13 9780141974972
- ISBN10 0141974974
- Pàgines 464
- Any Edició 2026
- Fecha de publicación 12/05/2026
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain (Alemany, Francès)
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- Clair Wills
- 9780141974972



