How much can change in less than two and a half years In the case of Britain in the Sixties,the answer is: almost everything. From the seismic coming of the Beatles to a sex scandal that rocked the Tory government to the arrival at No 10 of Harold Wilson,a prime minister utterly different from his Old Etonian predecessors.
A Northern Wind,the keenly anticipated next instalment of David Kynaston's acclaimed Tales of a New Jerusalem series,brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965. Drawing upon an unparalleled array of diaries,newspapers and first-hand recollections,Kynaston's masterful storytelling refreshes familiar events - the Cuban Missile Crisis,the Big Freeze,the assassination of JFK,the funeral of Winston Churchill - while revealing in all their variety the experiences of the people living through this history.
Major themes complement the compelling narrative: an anti-Establishment mood epitomised by the BBC's controversial That Was The Week That Was; a welfare state only slowly becoming more responsive to the individual needs of its users; and the rise of consumer culture,as Habitat arrived and shopping centres like Birmingham's Bull Ring proliferated.
Multi-voiced,multi-dimensional and immersive,Tales of a New Jerusalem has transformed how we see and understand post-war Britain. A Northern Wind continues the journey.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526657572Number of pages: 704Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
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