ABSTRACT
To be part of an overseas airline after World War II was to be at the center of major global, cultural, and technical change. Global power was shifting from the British Empire and Europe to the United States. The social structure of England was becoming more turbulent as forces for democracy and the demands of the new technology gave more power to the lower classes. The masses needed to be educated to handle the new technologies, and women, who had saved the British war effort by working in the factories, could never be satisfied again with the kitchen. I was a beneficiary of this huge shift and was the first of my working-class neighborhood to go to a university, all paid for by the Liverpool City Council.
