Nick Hubble is Reader in English at Brunel University, UK. He has published extensively on contemporary literature and culture and is the author of Mass Observation and Everyday Life (2010).
Jennie Taylor completed her PhD in History at the University of Sydney, Australia, and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Brunel University, UK. She has published on Mass Observation and leisure.
Philip Tew is Professor of English at Brunel University, UK. He has published numerous books, including Zadie Smith (2009), Writers Talk (2008), and Well Done God! Selected Prose and Drama of B. S. Johnson, (2013).

Introduction
Part I. The Interwar Generation
1. Backgrounds
2. 'To me, life and work are linked' - Ivy Miller
3. 'I never stopped learning all my life' - George Borrows
4. 'Mine has been a privileged generation' - Ron Turpin
5. 'People assume the elderly aren't interested in sex'- Amy Saunders
Part II. The Wartime Generation
6: Backgrounds
7. 'Life is better than I could ever have imagined as a child' - Joy Warren
8. 'An apprentice old dear'- Randall Jenkins
9: 'Politicians need to chat up the older generation' - Brenda Allen
10. 'The young do not have exclusive rights to love and happiness' - Joanna Woods
Afterword.
Appendix: FCMAP, MO and the U3A