Re-examining the long-held belief that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by ‘youth’ and ‘protest’, the authors in the collection argue that innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, it also was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past.
Table of Content
Foreword; Dominic Sandbrook Introduction; Trevor Harris and Monia O’Brien Castro 1. Sixties Britain: the Cultural Politics of Historiography; Mark Donnelly PART I: POLITICS 2. The 1960s: Days of Innocence; R. J. Morris 3. The Abortion Act 1967: a Fundamental Change?; Sylvie Pomiès-Maréchal and Matthew Leggett 4. Industrial Relations in the 1960s: the End of Voluntarism?; Alexis Chommeloux 5. The Radical Left and Popular Music in the 1960s; Jeremy Tranmer PART II: CULTURE 6. Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Friel’s Freedom of the City; Martine Pelletier 7. Pulp Diction: Stereotypes in 1960s British Literature; Peter Vernon 8. Sketchy Counterculture; Judith Roof 9. Psychic Liberation in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; Ben Winsworth 10. Preservation Society; Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski Conclusion; Trevor Harris and Monia O’Brien Castro
About the author
Alexis Chommeloux, University of Tours, France Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski, Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Mark Donnelly, St Mary’s University College, London, UK Matthew Leggett, University of Burgundy, France R. J. Morris, University of Edinburgh, UK Martine Pelletier, University of Tours, France Sylvie Pomiès-Maréchal, independent scholar, France Judith Roof, Rice University, Texas, USA Jeremy Tranmer, University of Nancy, France Peter Vernon, retired scholar, UK Ben Winsworth, University of Orleans, France
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