Deep Into the Sixties

'The most entertaining historian alive' SPECTATOR'Addictively readable' DOMINIC SANDBROOK‘My goodness, [the series] rockets along: every page contains something surprising, something funny, something sad' CRAIG BROWN, THE TIMES A definitive portrait of Britain in the throes of the Swinging Sixties, the new instalment in David Kynaston’s legendary 'Tales of a New Jerusalem' series – named one of the best non-fiction works of the 21st century by The TimesIt’s the heart of the Sixties in Britain – the Beatles and the Stones vie at the top of the charts, England win the World Cup, and optimism and patriotism percolate through the streets. But this is not the full story of mid-Sixties Britain. Disaffection on the political left increasingly focuses on the escalating Vietnam War; and the ambitious hopes of Harold Wilson’s Labour government start to founder on the precarious state of the pound.This was a time of looking both backwards and forwards – sweeping reforms to secondary education, hu