- Publisher: Birlinn
- Year: 2025
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 272pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 240 x160mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781780279473
- Product code: 547163
To See Ourselves
A Personal History of Scotland Since 1950
Alistair Moffat New Hardback
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The Kelso-born festival director, television executive and author Alistair Moffat reflects on the transformation of Scottish society since his 1950s childhood. Blending personal memoir with a broader perspective, he reviews the changes in attitudes to religion, gender roles and the environment as well as political and economic issues including the rise of the SNP, the 2008 financial crash, the 2014 independence referendum and the Covid pandemic.
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Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and practicalities of daily life which had remained constant for many generations were about to change in the most unimaginable ways.
This is a book about these changes - many of which have been dizzying and disorientating - and how they have affected each and every one of us in all parts of the country. The main themes, such as housing, healthcare, sport, the media, the arts and entertainment, urban and country life, our relationship with the environment, politics, religion and education, are all viewed through the lens of personal experience. Alistair's own recollections of big events and small, together with other eyewitness accounts, bring these decades alive in a way that no ordinary history can with a directness and poignancy that underlines how much has been gained - and how much lost.
This is a book about these changes - many of which have been dizzying and disorientating - and how they have affected each and every one of us in all parts of the country. The main themes, such as housing, healthcare, sport, the media, the arts and entertainment, urban and country life, our relationship with the environment, politics, religion and education, are all viewed through the lens of personal experience. Alistair's own recollections of big events and small, together with other eyewitness accounts, bring these decades alive in a way that no ordinary history can with a directness and poignancy that underlines how much has been gained - and how much lost.
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The Kelso-born festival director, television executive and author Alistair Moffat reflects on the transformation of Scottish society since his 1950s childhood. Blending personal memoir with a broader perspective, he reviews the changes in attitudes to religion, gender roles and the environment as well as political and economic issues including the rise of the SNP, the 2008 financial crash, the 2014 independence referendum and the Covid pandemic.
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