Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be - Britain in the 21st Century
We often hear people, particularly old people, complain about the pace of change and how things were better before. Nostalgia is that feeling of longing for times past.
Of course, nostalgia is an essential part of the British psyche. You might say it is one of the country’s main growth industries.
Read more in Access to English: Social Studies, pp. 238-245. Then do the tasks in the textbook and on this website.
Extra Tasks
Web resources
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Audio: Englishness (BBC Radio - In Our Time)
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Video: Living history: The man who lives in 1946
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I don’t want to be English if all it represents is poshness or football yobbery (Guardian)
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Billy Collins reads his poem "Nostalgia"
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Cup-cakes and cutbacks: Being nostalgic about austerity
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