I’ll be adding that book to my list–though not right away. I think when I finish reading this one wartime diary I have right now, I’ll take a little break from wartime stuff. But when I get in the mood again, I’ll hit up Citizens of London straight away.

It is perfect. I wish Juliet Gardiner would live forever and write social histories of every decade that ever happened. :p

I hope you can! I want everyone to love her as much as I do! I just discovered she wrote a book about Oscar Wilde, and then my head exploded with love. (Unless I read it and disagree with her, in which case she and I can’t be friends.)

I want The Thirties ever so much! When I checked out Wartime, The Thirties was sitting right there, and I talked myself out of getting it because I figured I could just check it out later. And now it’s gone… grrr, Past Jenny was dumb!

Exactly! I’m curious to see if she has the same knack in her book about the 1930s. With the Wartime book, she was able to draw on the Mass Observation archive, which was a huge amount of material. I’m wondering how she manages in the decade before the MO project got started.

Thanks–sorry about the confusion! I guess Gmail saw the “Congratulations you won a” subject line and tried to protect you. It’s weird that your spam filters minded and mine didn’t, since I have Gmail too.

I still don’t like reading books about actual war, like at the front. But I’ve gotten more and more fond of books set in Britain during and between the World Wars. They are so interesting and full of social change!

I hadn’t thought about it much either. I knew the US had done all those Japanese internment camps, and I kind of wondered if the Americans would have ever reached a point of outrage where the government decided to stop doing it. I hope so….