{"id":25203,"date":"2019-10-25T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25203"},"modified":"2019-10-25T08:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:15:21","slug":"who-would-have-thought-that-anyone-would-be-interested-in-my-diaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25203","title":{"rendered":"Who would have thought that anyone would be interested in my diaries?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started keeping a diary when I was 13 and, since then,  I haven&#8217;t missed a single day . This means that I&#8217;ve kept a diary for almost 58 years or 21,114 days to be precise. It is a personal diary written only for me &#8211; but this week I was visited by an historian who is interested in looking at a selected period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Kynaston is half way through a huge project involving the writing of six books on post-war Britain covering the period 1945-1979. He has already published the first three works:  <em>&#8220;Austerity Britain&#8221;<\/em> (1945-1951), &#8220;<em>Family Britain&#8221;<\/em> (1951-1957) and <em>&#8220;Modernity Britain&#8221;<\/em> (1957-1962).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He visited me this week to discuss his next book, which will cover the period 1963-1967, and to look at my diaries for this period. He would like to use a few quotes from my diaries when he revisits me to study them in more detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My diaries will make only a tiny contribution to his project since I was only 15-19 at the time and my comments are understandably youthful, but it was a time of Beatles music, Bond films, the space race and Labour Governments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started keeping a diary when I was 13 and, since then, I haven&#8217;t missed a single day . This means that I&#8217;ve kept a diary for almost 58 years or 21,114 days to be precise. It is a personal diary written only for me &#8211; but this week I was visited by an historian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25209,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203\/revisions\/25209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}