{"product_id":"growing-old-with-the-welfare-nick-hubble-9781350033108","title":"Growing Old with the Welfare State: Eight British Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe combined effect of the welfare state and medical advances means that more people now live longer lives than ever before in history. As a consequence, the experience of ageing has been transformed. Yet our cultural and social perceptions of ageing remain governed by increasingly dated images and narratives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrowing Old with the Welfare State\u003c\/i\u003e challenges these stereotypes by bringing together eight previously unpublished stories of ordinary British people born between 1925 and 1945 to show contemporary ageing in a new light. These biographical narratives, six of which were written as part of the Mass Observation Project, reflect on and compare the experience of living in two post-war periods of social change, after the first and second world wars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn doing so, these stories, along with their accompanying contextual chapters, provide a valuable and accessible resource for social historians, and expose both historical and contemporary views of age and ageing that challenge modern assumptions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Hubble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350033103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350033108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Nick Hubble","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48216770248959,"sku":"9781350033108","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_991492af-bfee-4b16-9619-985c4ce69b86.jpg?v=1771993246","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/growing-old-with-the-welfare-nick-hubble-9781350033108","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}