The Long Weekend: Social History of Great Britain, 1918-39

London: Hutchinson,1985 9780091619114. Softcover. Fine. 472 Pages. No inscriptions or annotations. The Long Week-End is a social history of interwar Britain, written by Robert Graves and Alan Hodge. It was first published in 1940, just after the end of the period it treats. Their story covers a wide range of popular and social themes, including politics, business, science, religion, art, literature, fashion, education, popular amusements, domestic life, sexual relations, and much else.The Long Week-End has gone through several reprints such as the one in 2009 by the Folio Society. Historian Adrian Tinniswood named his 2016 book, The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918–1939, after it. This was the first re-issue in paperback. A survey of the inter-war period, including surface aspects of the era, from current plays and novels to the latest dance fads and fashions imported from America, but also discussing the germinal and international influences at work in politics, business, science and the church.