From Ration Book to Facebook : the Life and Times of the Post-war Baby Boomers

Were you born in the 1940s and raised in the '50s? Were you a teenager in the '60s and did you leave home in the '70s? How has life changed through the '80s and '90s? And how did we end up here, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, when it all just seems like yesterday? In this fascinating new trip down memory lane, Paul Feeney remembers what it has been like to live through the eventful second half of the twentieth century. With memories that will strike a chord with readers of the baby-boomer generation, this nostalgic journey through a lifetime of change will resonate with anyone who remembers buying their first Ford Capri in the 1970s, making cheese and pineapple on sticks in the '80s and getting to grips with the internet in the 2000s. Do you remember washing in a tin bath by the fire, using outside lavatories and not having a television? Did you grow up in the 1950s and were you a teenager in the swinging sixties? If the Festival of Britain, food rationing and the Queen's coronation are among your earliest memories then you belong to the post-war baby boomer generation. How did we end up here, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, when it all just seems like yesterday? In this fascinating new trip down memory lane, Paul Feeney remembers what it has been like to live through the eventful second half of the twentieth century. This nostalgic journey through an era of change will resonate with anyone who began their innocent childhood years in austerity and has lived through a lifetime of ground-breaking events to the much changed Britain of today. There are also some wonderful pictures to help jog our memories of bygone days. Were you born in the 1940s and raised in the '50s? Were you a teenager in the '60s and did you leave home in the '70s? How has life changed through the '80s and '90s? And how did we end up here, in the second decade of the 21st century, when it all just seems like yesterday? In this fascinating new trip down memory lane, Paul Feeney remembers what it has been like to live through the eventful second half of the 20th century. With memories that will strike a chord with readers of the baby-boomer generation, this nostalgic journey through a lifetime of change will resonate with anyone who remembers buying their first Ford Capri in the 1970s, making cheese and pineapple on sticks in the '80s, and getting to grips with the internet in the 2000s. Do you remember washing in a tin bath by the fire, using outside lavatories and not having a television? In this fascinating trip down memory lane, Paul Feeney remembers what it was like to be part of the baby boomer generation.