David Kynaston (b.1951) has written about 16 history books on broadly three topics: cricket, the City of London, and Britain after the Second World War. His post-war histories have been published as three volumes, each of which – rather confusingly – contained two books:
- Austerity Britain, 1945–51 (2007) containing:
- A World to Build, 1945–48
- Smoke in the Valley, 1948–51
- Family Britain, 1951–57 (2009)
- The Certainties of Place, 1951-5
- A Thicker Cut, 1955-57
- Modernity Britain, 1957–62 (2014) which contained:
- Opening the Box, 1957–59
- A Shake of the Dice, 1959–62
This is a review, or notes on, book two of volume one, Austerity Britain: Smoke in The Valley, which covers the years 1948 to 1951 i.e. from the inauguration of the National Health Service on 5 July 1948 to Labour’s defeat in the October 1951 general election.
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