Plenty And Want

Plenty and Want (1966) by John Burnett – Nelson
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Long before food banks and cost-of-living crises became modern headlines, John Burnett’s Plenty and Want told the gritty tale of British poverty and diet from the Industrial Revolution to the swinging sixties. This 1966 classic doesn’t romanticise hardship—it documents it with forensic calm, tracing what the working classes actually ate (or didn’t), and how social reform crept in alongside the porridge.

This Nelson edition has seen better days—browned pages, that peculiar charity-shop aroma, and maybe a suspicious stain or two. But the words are all there, and they still bite.

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Hardback with dust jacket in very good, almost unread condition.

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