Charlotte Greenhalgh’s Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain makes a signal contribution to modern British history by recovering the lives, voices, and agency of the elderly in the twentieth century. It is an acute and moving account of people who have been, until now, largely left out of the historical narrative.Stephen Brooke, author of Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day

Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain is an outstanding history of the emotional, social, institutional, family, embodied, and narrated lives of older people across twentieth-century Britain. It demonstrates not just that older lives matter historically but also that old age is itself historically contingent and has been actively constituted in tandem with