Donald Rayfield

Open Season

Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring

By Kathleen E Smith

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Paul Addison

Governing in Prose

Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee

By John Bew

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Piers Brendon

A Most Violent Year

Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis that Shook the World

By Alex von Tunzelmann

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Valerie Grove

Mayfair Lady

Marriages are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940s Marriage Bureau

By Penrose Halson

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Jeremy Lewis

Plumped Pages

The New Yorker Book of the 50s: Story of a Decade

By Henry Finder (ed)

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Richard Cobb

I Remember It Well

Playing For Time

By Jeremy Lewis

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April 1988 Issue

Colin Wilson

The Author Has Not Yet Read My Masterpiece

Success Stories: Literature and the Media in England, 1950-1959

By Harry Ritchie

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April 2015 Issue

Katharine Whitehorn

The Revolution’s Near

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

By Virginia Nicholson

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August 2008 Issue

Christopher Coker

A Sour War

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

By David Halberstam

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June 2008 Issue

Peter McDonald

Firbank, Bellini and Rare Steak

W H Auden: Prose, Volume III – 1949–1955

By Edward Mendelson (ed)

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December 2007 Issue

Michael Barber

Comic Cuts

Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1950s Comic

By Daniel Tatarsky (ed)

The Complete Peanuts: Volume 1 1950–52, Volume 2 1953–54

By Charles M Schulz

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David Kynaston

East End Chronicles

Call the Midwife

By Jennifer Worth

Family and Kinship in East London

By Michael Young and Peter Willmott

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May 2012 Issue

Katherine Whitehorn

Escaping the Mad Men

The Fifties Mystique

By Jessica Mann

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November 2013 Issue

Anne Sebba

Housewives & Heroines

Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

By Rachel Cooke

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