{"product_id":"9781785782121","title":"Headline Britons 1921-1925","description":"Headline Britons paints a unique picture of British life in the 20th and 21st centuries by re-examining some of the country’s most notable characters. Each book covers a five-year span, telling the stories of a number of people who, in that time, stood out among their contemporaries.  As the 1920s progressed and Britain tried to recover from the horrors of war, the country enjoyed a short postwar boom – seeing the development of household gadgets such as dishwashers, sterilisers and cigar lighters – but it did not last and soon unemployment grew.  Peter Pugh shows in this book that despite the ‘swinging twenties’ being largely a myth, the decade was enlivened by mouldbreaking characters such as birth control pioneer Marie Stopes, father of the BBC John Reith, and Horatio Bottomley - perhaps the biggest business fraudster of all time.","brand":"Icon Books, Ltd. UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152551723248,"sku":"9781785782121","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785782121_p0.jpg?v=1763728214","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785782121","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}