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Part sociology, part social history, part autobiography, this is the second volume in the 'Croydon Boy' trilogy in which Peter Saunders takes a very personal look back at raising a family, building a career, and searching for the meaning of life during the tumultuous years of the 1970s and 1980s. The book opens in 1971. The sixties are over. The Beatles have disbanded. Ali has lost his heavyweight crown. Crystal Palace have been relegated to ...

Originally published in 1990, and re-issued in 2020 with an updated Preface, this book shows how the UK has become a nation of home owners, and the effect it has had on people's lives, the impact which it has had on British society and the implications for those who have hitherto been excluded.

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The second volume in the Croydon Boy trilogy, Croydon Boy II looks back at life in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.

Peter Saunders meets his family. Agricultural labourers from Essex, Lincolnshire and the Scottish borders, hat-makers, pin-headers, shoemakers and coal miners from Gloucestershire, cotton spinners, weavers and piecers from the slums of industrial Lancashire, illiterate Irish peasants from County Cork, rag-pickers, charwomen, abandoned wives and prostitutes, soldiers who died in the Flanders mud and were never found, soldiers who made it home b...

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The best-selling singles artist of 1967 was not the Beatles, the Stones or the Who. It was Engelbert Humperdink. And in the year that Sergeant Pepper was released, the best-selling album was the soundtrack from The Sound of Music. The reality of the sixties often fails to live up to the hype. In this unique book, Peter Saunders - a professional sociologist - blends research findings with personal anecdotes to paint a picture of what life was r...

Paperback edition.Part sociology, part social history, part autobiography, this sequel to Croydon Boy takes a personal look back on life in Britain during the tumultuous years of the 1970s and 1980s. Married at twenty, a father at twenty-one, we catch up with the author in late 1971 living with his wife and baby son in one room at his parents-in-laws' house. It's not working out very well.The world is in no better state than he is. British tro...

Originally published in 1990, and re-issued in 2020 with an updated Preface, this book shows how the UK has become a nation of home owners, and the effect it has had on people¿s lives, the impact which it has had on British society and the implications for those who have hitherto been excluded.

Drawing on the author's extensive research expertise and his links with welfare practitioners , this landmark study provides the first comprehensive assessment of the nature and associations between the three main forms of social disadvantage in Australia: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion.

As the most influential and powerful country on the entire continent of Africa, an understanding of South Africa's past and its present trends is crucial in appreciating where South Africans are going to, and from where they have come. South Africa changed dramatically in 1994 when apartheid was dismantled, and it became a democratic state. Since 2000, when the previous edition appeared, further big changes occurred, with the rise of new polit...

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A pictorial commentary on work by Michael Rothenstein in the Fry Art Gallery Collection.

The best-selling singles artist of 1967 was not the Beatles, the Stones or the Who. It was Engelbert Humperdink. And in the year that Sergeant Pepper was released, the best-selling album was the soundtrack from The Sound of Music. The reality of the sixties often fails to live up to the hype. In this unique book, Peter Saunders - a professional sociologist - blends research findings with personal anecdotes to paint a picture of what life was r...

Jason Wall was fleetingly famous in the sixties as lead singer with Jason and the Argonauts. Their hit single, The Sweetest Girl, got to number six in the charts in 1966. Almost fifty years later, England is in the grip of a paedophile panic, politicians are in disgrace following an expenses scandal, and traditionalists and progressives are at each other's throats over gay marriage, political correctness and the Iraq War. Jason Wall is now a s...

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.