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To See Ourselves: A Personal History of Scotland Since 1950

To See Ourselves: A Personal History of Scotland Since 1950

Moffat, Alistair

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ISBN10: 1780279477
ISBN13: 9781780279473
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: Aug 12 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
Reflects on Scotland's dramatic transformation since 1945 through personal memories and eyewitness accounts.

Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and practicalities of daily life which had remained constant for many generations were about to change in the most unimaginable ways.

This is a book about these changes - many of which have been dizzying and disorientating - and how they have affected each and every one of us in all parts of the country. The main themes, such as housing, healthcare, sport, the media, the arts and entertainment, urban and country life, our relationship with the environment, politics, religion and education, are all viewed through the lens of personal experience. Alistair's own recollections of big events and small, together with other eyewitness accounts, bring these decades alive in a way that no ordinary history can with a directness and poignancy that underlines how much has been gained - and how much lost.

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