Alwyn W Turner: 5 books

The Daleks are one of the most iconic and fearsome creations in television history. Since their first appearance in 1963, they have simultaneously fascinated and terrified generations of British children, their instant success ensuring, and sometimes eclipsing, that of Doctor Who. They sprang from...

At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 11th November 1919 the entire British Empire  came to a halt  to remember the  dead of the Great War. During that first two-minute silence all transport  stayed still, all work ceased and millions stood motionless in the streets. The only human sound...

'A  masterly mix of shrewd analysis, historical detail and telling quotes... Indispensable’ Mail on Sunday 'Among a host of recent books on the 1980s, Turner's stands out as comfortably the most entertaining’ Sunday Times When Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in 1979 she...

'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday The 1970s. They were the best of times and the worst of times. Wealth inequality was at a record low, yet industrial strife was at a record...

The first popular history of a decade that is yet to be defined or anatomised as the 1960s or 1970s have been, A Classless Society goes in search of a Britain still reeling from the conflicts of the Thatcher years.