Decade Packed with Hope and Enthusiasm ; a Major New Book has Inspired Much Chat On the Airwaves and Column Inches to Be Devoted to That Happy Time Otherwise Known As the 1950s. Martin Hesp, Who Was Born in That Decade, Is Not Entirely Convinced

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E VERYONE was upbeat and optimistic. We'd finished with all that horrible war stuff and we were looking forward to a rosy future - it's no wonder we look back at the 1950s with such warmth - as a decade, it positively glows in the public imagination.

At least it does when you read statements like the one above - spoken by a chap called Peter Hesp who was a press officer at the Festival of Britain, staged in 1951.

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Decade Packed with Hope and Enthusiasm ; a Major New Book has Inspired Much Chat On the Airwaves and Column Inches to Be Devoted to That Happy Time Otherwise Known As the 1950s. Martin Hesp, Who Was Born in That Decade, Is Not Entirely Convinced

He also happens to be my dad, and we were talking about the fifties recently because the decade has been a topic on many people's lips since the publication of Family Britain - 1951-57, by David Kynaston.

The book is a multi-dimensional and fascinati...

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