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From austerity icon to swinging sixties style revolution.

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  • Paperback

    56 pages

  • Release Date

    10 August 2013

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Summary

The Mini, now an emblem of the Swinging Sixties, was in fact the product of an age of austerity and shortage, a simple design intended to make motoring more accessible and affordable for the average family.

Ironically, it would become something very different: a modern, classless style icon that appealed across the boundaries of social status, age and gender and lent its name to everything from fashion to furniture.

Using illustrations from the archives of the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780747812555
ISBN-10:0747812551
Author:Gillian Bardsley
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Shire Publications
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:56
Release Date:10 August 2013
Weight:130g
Dimensions:4mm x 148mm x 208mm
Series:Shire Library
A-Format
B-Format
Mini by Gillian Bardsley - ISBN: 9780747812555
148 × 208 mm
C-Format
A4
mm / in
About The Author

Gillian Bardsley

Gillian Bardsley is a historian with a special interest in the social consequences of the rise and fall of the motor industry in Britain. She is the author of ‘Issigonis, the Official Biography’ and has also written books about the Longbridge and Cowley factories and the craft of coachbuilding. As the Archivist of the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust she has contributed to many programmes and articles on TV, radio and in the press.

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