Mark Easton - Britain Etc.

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Mark Easton’s
looks at the UK through its relationship to 26 subjects — one for each letter of the alphabet. From Alcohol, Beat Bobbies, Cheese and Dogs through Immigration, Justice, Knives and Murder to the Queen, Umbrellas, Vegetables and the Zzzz of a well-deserved rest, the book's meticulously researched but accessible essays map the back-story of contemporary Britain. With each lettered chapter, the reader is invited to look at the United Kingdom in a new way: standing back to see our small islands in a global or historical context, and then diving down to scrutinise vital details that may be overlooked. Taken together, the essays reveal a Britain that cannot be seen through the prism of daily news or current affairs. A park, a wedding, a beggar and a carrot all take on new significance once you have read
. As the UK welcomes millions of visitors to its shores for the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, this is a book that offers insight into the psyche of Britain; a nation's obsessions, prejudices, values and idiosyncrasies. What sort of place is it, what are the natives like, and how did we get to where we are?

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7. G. Manley, ‘Bad summers’, New Scientist , 16 October 1958

8. V. Janković, Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650–1820 (University of Chicago Press, 2001)

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12. W. Sangster, Umbrellas and their History (Oxford University Press, 1855; Kessinger Publishing, 2010)

V is for Vegetables

1. World Carrot Museum, www.carrotmuseum.co.uk

2. D. Hollingsworth, ‘Changing patterns of food consumption in Britain’, Nutrition Bulletin, 2 (1974; 2007)

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W is for www

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X is for XXXX

1. A. Millwood Hargrave, Delete Expletives? (ASA, BBC, BSC, ITC, 2000)

2. T. Jay, ‘The utility and ubiquity of taboo words’, Perspectives on Psychological Science , 4 (2009)

3. T. McEnery, Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present (Routledge, 2005)

4. T. Dalrymple, ‘Against vulgarity’, Spectator , 18 May 2011)

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17. P. Bordieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Harvard University Press, 1984)

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Y is for Youth

1. P. Richard, R. Layard and J. Dunn, A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age (Penguin, 2009)

2. M. Easton, ‘The year we lost the kids’ (BBC, 2008), www.bbc.co.uk

3. M. Easton, ‘Thinking about children and crime’ (BBC, 2009), www.bbc.co.uk

4. M. Easton, ‘Bridging the generation gap’ (BBC, 2008), www.bbc.co.uk

5. An Overview of Child Well-being in Rich Countries (UNICEF, 2007), www.unicef.org

6. J. Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (A. and J. Churchill, 1693)

7. L. DeMause, The History of Childhood (Psychohistory Press, 1974)

8. P. Aries, Centuries of Childhood (Penguin Books, 1979)

9. L. Pollock, Forgotten Children: Parent-Child Relations from 1500–1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1983)

10. L. Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 (Weidenfeld, 1977)

11. J. Savage, Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875–1945 (Random House, 2008)

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15. G. S. Hall, Adolescence (D. Appleton and Co., 1911)

Z is for Zzzz

1. Sleep Matters: The Impact of Sleep on Health and Wellbeing (Mental Health Foundation, 2011), www.howdidyousleep.org/media/downloads/MHF_Sleep_Matters_Report.pdf

2. C. Leadbeater, Dream On (Demos, 2004), www.demos.co.uk/publications/dreamon

3. R. Macnish, The Philosophy of Sleep (D. Appleton, 1834)

4. L. Terman and A. Hocking, ‘The Sleep of School Children: Its Distribution According to Age, and Its Relation to Physical and Mental Efficiency’, Journal of Educational Psychology , 4 (1913)

5. I. Oswald, Sleep (Penguin Books, 1966)

6. M. Cahill, ‘The Ethical Consequences of Modafinil Use’, Penn Bioethics Journal , 1 (2005), www.bioethicsjournal.com/past/pbj1.1_cahill.pdf

7. I. Sample, ‘Wired Awake’, Guardian , (29/07/2004), www.guardian.co.uk/education/2004/jul/29/research.highereducation

8. J. A. Horne, Sleepfaring: A Journey through the Science of Sleep (Oxford University Press, 2006)

9. R. G. Foster and S. W. Lockley, Sleep: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011)

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First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2012
A CBS COMPANY

Copyright © 2012 by Mark Easton

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