Ten Generations

A Family Story from Rags to Riches

Ten Generations
Mark Lowcock
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h216 x 138mm - 240pg
28 Jan 2021 UK
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9781800461284
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Piecing together the story of more than one hundred of his ancestors across the British Isles and beyond from the 1650s to the 1950s, Mark Lowcock presents an extraordinary piece of social and family history in his new book Ten Generations: A Family Story from Rags to Riches. They were ordinary people: barmen, carpenters, coal miners, dockers, domestic servants, dressmakers, glass blowers, labourers, sailors, shop assistants and textile workers. TenGenerations documents their gradual escape from grinding poverty and oppression through the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution and the wild oscillations of the first half of the twentieth century, to a position of relative prosperity and freedom. Ranging widely across food, clothes, education, living conditions, healthcare, work, religion, rights and social mores, travel, sex and entertainment, Ten Generations is a compelling depiction of the joys and strains of life and how it changed for the better for ordinary people as the centuries passed. Described by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown as: "A must read. . . a great achievement. . . eminently readable. "
Mark Lowcock is the head of humanitarian affairs at the United Nations. He is married to Dr Julia Watson, a health economist, and they have three grown-up children and seven nephews and nieces. He was knighted in 2017 for services to international development and has written opinion pieces for, among others, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, The Washington Post and Le Monde. All the author' s proceeds are being donated to non-profit organisations fighting COVID-19.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781800461284
Published: 28 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Matador
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 240

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