David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. His many books include King Labour (1976, a study of the Victorian working class), The City of London (1994–2001, a widely acclaimed four-volume history), and Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket (2018, co-written with Stephen Fay). Since 2001 his main focus has been on 'Tales of a New Jerusalem', a multi-volume history of post-war Britain. He continues to support Aldershot Town, subject of his diary Shots in the Dark (2020).

The sixth volume in David Kynaston’s history of postwar Britain covers the eighteen months between the death of Winston Churchill and England’s victory over Germany in the World Cup . . . Indeed, there was already hope in the air – what Kynaston describes as a palpable sense that possibilities were opening up . . . On the other hand – and this is the burden of Kynaston’s story – continuity was probably more marked than change . . . The daemon of Kynaston’s saga is in the detail. It is animated by minutiae, thumbnail sketches, arcane vignettes, evanescent slices of life . . . [A] magnificent series

David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. His many books include King Labour (1976, a study of the Victorian working class), The City of London (1994–2001, a widely acclaimed four-volume history), and Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket (2018, co-written with Stephen Fay). Since 2001 his main focus has been on 'Tales of a New Jerusalem', a multi-volume history of post-war Britain. He continues to support Aldershot Town, subject of his diary Shots in the Dark (2020).

The sixth volume in David Kynaston’s history of postwar Britain covers the eighteen months between the death of Winston Churchill and England’s victory over Germany in the World Cup . . . Indeed, there was already hope in the air – what Kynaston describes as a palpable sense that possibilities were opening up . . . On the other hand – and this is the burden of Kynaston’s story – continuity was probably more marked than change . . . The daemon of Kynaston’s saga is in the detail. It is animated by minutiae, thumbnail sketches, arcane vignettes, evanescent slices of life . . . [A] magnificent series

David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. His many books include King Labour (1976, a study of the Victorian working class), The City of London (1994–2001, a widely acclaimed four-volume history), and Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket (2018, co-written with Stephen Fay). Since 2001 his main focus has been on 'Tales of a New Jerusalem', a multi-volume history of post-war Britain. He continues to support Aldershot Town, subject of his diary Shots in the Dark (2020).

The sixth volume in David Kynaston’s history of postwar Britain covers the eighteen months between the death of Winston Churchill and England’s victory over Germany in the World Cup . . . Indeed, there was already hope in the air – what Kynaston describes as a palpable sense that possibilities were opening up . . . On the other hand – and this is the burden of Kynaston’s story – continuity was probably more marked than change . . . The daemon of Kynaston’s saga is in the detail. It is animated by minutiae, thumbnail sketches, arcane vignettes, evanescent slices of life . . . [A] magnificent series