Mid-morning coffee with a book in the park, before it gets too hot. We're expecting 40°C this afternoon 🌞 😵 - the hottest day so far this year. I'm home again now, and I've closed all the shutters to keep the sun and heat out.
Mid-morning coffee with a book in the park, before it gets too hot. We're expecting 40°C this afternoon 🌞 😵 - the hottest day so far this year. I'm home again now, and I've closed all the shutters to keep the sun and heat out.
Lovers and Strangers is a history of post-war immigration to Britain. It‘s engaging, but I would have liked something less ”journalistic” and more academic.
Clair Wills teaches at Princeton University and in this fascinating, at times horrifying but always very human book that draws on a rich mix of sources, she describes the experiences of migrants from a range of countries and cultures arriving in Britain in the post War period and although the scope of the book means some experiences get less attention than others, there are obvious and uncomfortable parallels with today‘s immigration debate.