Ten Pound Poms - A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia

More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story, illuminated by the riveting testimony of migrant life histories.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Alistair Thomson is Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex and Reader in Continuing Education and History

Produktdetails

• Autoren: A. James Thomson Hammerton, Hammerton A. James, Thomson Alistair
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 21.01.2025
• EAN: 9781526184238
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-8423-8
• Seiten: 408
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945); Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, Migration, immigration & emigration, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General