Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965 – 66
Thursday 8 October
Castle Hill Baptist Church
7.30pm
Sixties Britain – the Beatles and the Stones vie at the top of the charts in a confident and free-spending youth culture, there is education reform, urban redevelopment and England win the World Cup – heady optimism and patriotism abound.
But this is not the full story of mid-Sixties Britain. Everyday life for many, especially beyond the big cities, bears a striking resemblance to earlier decades.
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 to paint a richly nuanced picture in unrivalled detail, as part of the Tales of a New Jerusalem series.
David will be in conversation with John Jefferies, Senior Tutor and Head of Politics at Warwick School.