New Publication for James Mansell

Congratulations to James Mansell on his book launch last Monday (5 December) at the Five Leaves Bookshop, The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity (University of Illinois Press, 2017). Ian Brookes reports that James gave an excellent talk illustrated with some extraordinary sounds from the archives.  ‘Sound transformed British life in the "age of noise" between 1914 and 1945. The sonic maelstrom of mechanized society bred anger and anxiety and even led observers to forecast the end of civilization. The noise was, as James G. Mansell shows, modernity itself, expressed in aural form, with immense implications for the construction of the self.’