Review

Ysenda Maxtone Graham gets to the crux of what British summer holidays were really like in British Summer Time Begins

By Colin Steele
December 6 2020 - 12:00am
"The overriding (summer) memory was of a sort of easy, unself-conscious, cotton-wearing happiness". Picture: Shutterstock
"The overriding (summer) memory was of a sort of easy, unself-conscious, cotton-wearing happiness". Picture: Shutterstock
  • British Summer Time Begins. The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980, by Ysenda Maxtone Graham. Little Brown. $49.99.

In the 1963 hit movie Summer Holiday, Cliff Richard famously sang, "We're all going on a summer holiday/No more working for a week or two/Fun and laughter on our summer holiday/No more worries for me or you/We're going where the sun shines brightly/We're going where the sea is blue/We've all seen it on the movies, Now let's see if it's true".

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