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 Never Had it So Good - Dominic Sandbrook
 Never Had it So Good - Dominic Sandbrook ... 2006-05-04 by AbacusNewest Review: ... a period when everyone turned on, tuned in and dropped out. With a satisfying respect for the breadth of Great Britain, he ... more ... exposes our understanding of the late fifties and early sixties as being unfairly biased towards London, and the young, liberal people who contributed to mainstream media and therefore the cultural legacy we have today. Examining the grim realities of unemployment, poverty and a woeful economy, he proposes that we should re-examine the sixties impact on Britain's national identity, examining more closely the reality of what was an extremely conservative and in many cases troubled post-war society.
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Never Had it So Good - Dominic Sandbrook: Never had British history so good (373 words)
by - written on 13/01/09 (Very useful, 49 readings)
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There are many myths about the nineteen-sixties in Britain. Namely that it was the era of free love and ground breaking mainstream fashion and music. It is also that if you remember them, you weren't there. Dominic Sandbrook evidently knows a lot about this crucial period in British history. Perhaps crucially, he wasn't even born until well after it, so he seems to approach his subject matter with a rigorous intellectual critique of assumed knowledge and cultural mythology. He does not buy the argument that this was a period when everyone turned on, tuned in and dropped out. With a satisfying respect for the breadth of Great Britain, he exposes our ... Read the complete review
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