by Stuart Maconie · Ebury Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780091926489
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«Hope and Glory: The Days that Made Britain» is Stuart Maconie's history and travel essay, published by Ebury Press in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Stuart Maconie proposes a journey through places and moments of the British twentieth century to understand what made the UK what it is today. From the death of Queen Victoria to the arrival of the Empire Windrush, via the Battle of the Somme, the General Strike or the 1966 World Cup, each decade is approached through a key episode and its mark on the present.
Accessible essay on the social and cultural history of Britain. The author covers one decade per chapter, from 1901 to the end of the twentieth century, combining chronicle, popular memory and social criticism.
Stuart John Maconie is an English radio DJ and television presenter, writer, journalist, and critic working in the field of pop music and popular culture. He is a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music where, alongside Mark Radcliffe, he hosts its weekend breakfast show which broadcasts from the BBC's MediaCityUK in Salford. The pair previously presented an evening show on BBC Radio 2 and the weekday afternoon show for BBC Radio 6 Music.
