There are many things I wish I had written. In my old life as a contemporary British historian, the first chapter of the wonderful David Kynaston’s definitive postwar history, Austerity Britain, is in the top 5. The humility of his writing allows his powerful truth to emerge from the voices of his witnesses.

Slide1Slide2Slide3Slide4Slide5Slide6

Slide7Slide8Slide9Slide10