 In an era when history focused on the Great Man and political forces as the drivers of history, these books about the day to day life of the common person were ahead of their time, which would not come into the fore until the 1970s (see microhistory).In 1935 the Quennell's published "The Good New Days" (1935), where modern industrial and agricultural processes, together with the problems of the future, were considered.In 1968 author S. E. Ellacott published a fifth volume titled "A History of Everyday Things in England