I love this — history is always much more fun when you were actually there to witness it.  Each brief chapter contrasts something new with something from those days.  Do you prefer good old gravy or the modern equivalent of jus?  Do you have sat-nav or rely on the A-Z?  How about TV shows, children’s names, playground crazes, toys, pop music or eating out? Contrast modern celebrities with their yesteryear counterparts, and non-pc subjects, such as smoking, with the way we view them now, for a real slice of social history. It’s all so readable, too, that I read the whole book in one go while I was supposed to be doing something else, which must be a good recommendation.  This is going to be a popular stocking filler this Christmas, I think, for anybody over a certain age, who can remember being given Dextrosol tablets for energy, watching Pearl and Dean adverts at the cinema, or collecting Green Shield stamps.  Great fun!