- Published: 12 June 2022
- ISBN: 9780753558737
- Imprint: WH Allen
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $48.00
Rule, Nostalgia
A Backwards History of Britain
- Published: 12 June 2022
- ISBN: 9780753558737
- Imprint: WH Allen
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $48.00
Our national story is so much stranger than we think: this book brilliantly insists that we look at it afresh
James Hawes, bestselling author of The Shortest History of England
Fascinating and timely, Rule, Nostalgia is an eye-opening history of Britain's enduring fixation with its own past
Jeremy Paxman
A smart, entertaining and meticulously researched backwards look (quite literally) at Britain's history of looking over its shoulder. Deconstructs the lure of the fictitious 'good old days' and how they have been weaponised throughout history. Excellent
Otto English, author of Fake History
A great, scholarly history, and so searingly relevant
Dan Snow, author of On This Day in History
An utterly eye-opening and enthralling debut, clearly laying out our uniquely British obsession with nostalgia. Required reading for anyone who wants to use the term 'culture war'... I absolutely loved it
Fern Riddell, author of Death in Ten Minutes: The forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion
Outstanding. A thrilling, elegant and highly original interrogation of how we use our pasts
Musa Okwonga, author of One of Them: An Eton College Memoir
Nostalgia was once considered a terminal condition. Hannah Woods suggests that the culture needs to book itself in for a check-up. Provocative and well-argued, Rule, Nostalgia offers the diagnosis that might lead us to a cure
Matthew Sweet
A triumphal backwards tour through the history of Britain's relationship with its own past. This funny, sad, wise and brilliantly informative book is a crash course in the many pasts that have made our presents
Peter Mitchell, author of Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves
Well-argued, timely and hugely entertaining. A great piece of popular history
Jonathan Coe, bestselling author of Middle England