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Born in 1952? (Revised Edition) : What Else Happened?, Paperback / softback Book

Born in 1952? (Revised Edition) : What Else Happened? Paperback / softback

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Over the past 15 years the author, Ron Williams, has written this series of books that present a Social Historysocial history of Australia in the post-war period. They cover the period for 1939 to 1972, with one book for each year. Thus there are 34 books.

To capture the material for each book, the author, Ron Williams, worked his way through the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age/Argus day-by-day, and picked out the best stories, ideas and trivia. He then wrote them up into 180 pages of a year-book. 

He writes in a direct conversational style, he has avoided statistics and charts, and has produced easily-read material that is entertaining, and instructive, and charming.

They are invaluable as gifts for birthdays, Christmas, and anniversaries, and for the oldies who are hard to buy for. 

These books are available at all major retailers.

Note. Throughout this book, I rely a lot on reproducing Letters from the newspapers. Whenever I do this, I put the text in a different font, and indent it a little, and make the font somewhat smaller. I do not edit the text at all. The same is true for theNews Itemsat the start of each Chapter. That is, I do not correct spelling or if the textgets at all garbled, I do not correct it. It's just as it was seen in the Papers.

Second Note. The material for this book, when it comes from newspapers, is reported as it was seen at the time. If the benefit of hindsight over the years changes things, then I might record that in my Comments. The info reported thus reflects matters as they were seen in 1949.

Third Note. Let me also apologise in advance to anyone Imight offend. In a work such as this, it is certain some people will think I got some things wrong. I am sure that I did, but please remember, all of this is only my opinion. And really, my opinion does not matter one little bit in the scheme of things.  I hope you will say "silly old bugger", and shrug your shoulders, and read on. 

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