BORN IN 1963?....Birthday Book....Australian Social History....Oz 1963 Year-book

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Note that our family-based partnership is still in business after 16 years, and has kept its price at $22 for all that period.  We have been able to do this because so many of our sales come from word of mouth.  That keeps promotion costs down. 

So, when you like the books, please do not keep your mouth shut.   

BORN IN 1963?   WHAT ELSE HAPPENED?

This is the 25th of 36 books in a series that covers Australian social history, in the 36 years from 1939 to 1974.  Each year-book in the Series tells about the large number of newsworthy events that happened in that year.

To get the material for the books, the writer, Ron Williams, worked his way through newspapers, magazines, books, and other sources, day by day until he came up with most of the major events and ideas, and trivia, of those years.  He presents them in a thoroughly readable book, with a mixture of humour and gravitas.

All books are pitched at “oldies” who are not as young as they were.   When people get a bit older, they become more reflective on their lives, and they place more value on their partners, and families, and friends from yesteryear. And about this time, nostalgia edges into their lives, and they start to look back at their teens, and dwell on their early years and childhood, and inevitably, their parents. 

When their birthdays come round, they celebrate it with family, friends and neighbours.  It is a time for reminiscence and memories, and the "good old days" get many a mention.  But when it gets back to their year of birth, the year it all started for them, they can't remember a thing 

IN FACT, MOST PEOPLE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEIR YEAR OF BIRTH

This 160-page  book aims to fix that a little by picking out the best stories of the year.  This year, the nation continued in its lucky ways. The troubles overseas with blacks and coloureds scarcely touched us, economic arguments over the Common Market were too far away to be really troubling, the Cold War was by now so boring that the threat of bombs and Reds no longer worried us.  So we went on, happy in our isolation and pre-occupation with matters local and personal. Though, by now there were stirrings affecting aborigines, women, White Australia Policy, and the like.  But it was all against the business-as-usual mentality of the Menzies government, so all the excitement had to come from within the strivings of society for a markedly better life.

All books are printed on quality paper with tough gloss covers, and Perfect Bound for durability.  They are printed in black-and-white, and in the style of the newspapers of those earlier days.

They are ideal gifts for oldies’ birthdays.  Nostalgics will love them. People will actually read them, and then pass them it on.