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Never had it so good : a history of Britain from Suez to the Beatles / Dominic Sandbrook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sandbrook, Dominic.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952-2022.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-.
- Social conditions.
- Nineteen fifties.
- Nineteen sixties.
- Physical Description:
- 824 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Little, Brown, 2005.
- Summary:
- Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture of a society caught between conservatism and change. He explores the growth of a modern consumer society, the impact of immigration, the invention of modern pop music, and the British retreat from empire. He tells the story of the colourful characters of the period, like Harold Macmillan, Kingsley Amis, and Paul McCartney, and brings to life the experience of the first post-imperial generation, from the Notting Hill riots to the first Beatles hits, from the Profumo scandal to the cult of James Bond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 790-805) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0316860832
- OCLC:
- 57355011
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