| Homes in the 1970s contain a range ofbasic equipment far more uniformthan at any other time since the middleages. New homes provide a backgroundof built-in features differing only mar-ginally according to taste and expense;the latter half of the twentieth centuryhas produced standardisation in domes-tic requirements and expectations as inother aspects of life. Since the SecondWorld War domestic technology hasprogressed so quickly and the standardof living has risen so markedly that itis easy to forget that in the earlytwentieth century the domestic life ofthe poorer classes in many cases com-pared more readily with that of theireighteenth-century counterparts thanwith the contemporary middle classes.The transition to the universal use ofgas and electric power in the homespeeded up in the postwar period sothat the younger generation has diffi-culty in identifying some of the equip-ment their grandparents, and even |
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