flag uk * DEEP INTO THE SIXTIES

    It'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 those years. 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 parlous state of the pound.
    Covering the short but intense period from after Churchill's death in early 1965 to England's Wembley triumph in July 1966, David Kynaston uses a plethora of contemporary sources, including diaries of ordinary people, to paint a richly nuanced picture of unrivalled detail. Deep Into the Sixties continues to revolutionise how we see post-war Britain.

- BRITAIN 1965-66, by David Kynaston, Bloomsbury Publishing, 24 Sept. 2026, 704 pages, ISBN 9781526657640. [0826]


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