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Tom Ware
Time Shift Series Editor
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The jet set inhabit a particular place in the history of modern celebrity. Moneyed, aloof and ever so slightly louche, they saw their heyday between 1950 and 1970s, following the wartime invention of the jet engine.
In Liz Baker's excellent Time Shift we see how the growth in civil aviation during the 1950s created opportunities for the aspirant, mercantile upper-middle class to travel to destinations that had previously been beyond their physical and economic reach. In the 1960s, television - in the form of Alan Whicker - found that the lives and times of the super-rich could be transformed into mass public entertainment. Though his reports, by modern standards, were far from exposés, they exploited the public's natural prurience and, as the jet age gave way to the age of the jumbo, where the jet set went, the public were keen to follow...
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