White heat : a history of Britain in the swinging sixties

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Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the swinging sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline. The sequel to 'Never Had It So Good', this book completes Sandbrook's groundbreaking history of Britain in the 1960s.

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Great Britain History Elizabeth II, 1952-2022

Great Britain Social conditions 1945-

Nineteen sixties

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ISBN:

9780349118208

Description:

xviii, 954 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm

Notes:

First published in Great Britain in 2006 by Little, Brown
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Part one: The new Britain
Let's go with labour
The ten faces of Harold
The space age
This is tomorrow
The hundred days
Introducing the turds
Special relations
Enter the Stones
Women! Win Mr Heath!
Part two: England swings
Britain in 1965
The wild ones
Dedicated followers of fashion
The swinging city
The day it all stopped
The face of '66
Is Britain civilised?
Sowing dragons' teeth
The Yorkshire Walter Mitty
Part three: The end of illusions
Carry on England
The pound in your pocket
I was Lord Kitchener's valet
Heavens above!
Love without fear
The arctic winter of the Treasury
Play power
Sympathy for the devil
Why Lucky Jim turned right
Part four: I'm backing Britain
The other England
Streets in the sky
Wilson must go
Back Britain, not black Britain
Desperate housewives
In place of strife
Children of wrath
The carnival is over
Epilogue

Control Number:

3250487

Other Authors:

Sequel to: Sandbrook, Dominic. Never had it so good

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