| Office workers of the 1920s with pens and ink instead of the computer screens of today; opera, the preserve of the elite in 1955, shown on giant screens outside Covent Garden; women campaigning for the vote in 1909 and manning a polling station in 1999 - in an engrossing series of juxtapositions, this book sets photographs of British life in the first half of the 20th century alongside their present-day equivalents, throwing changes in sport, leisure, work, industry, life in the city and the countryside into sharp relief.
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