num_pages: 892
description: Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture of a society caught between conservatism and change. He explores the growth of a modern consumer society, the impact of immigration, the invention of modern pop music, and the British retreat from empire. He tells the story of the colourful characters of the period, like Harold Macmillan, Kingsley Amis, and Paul McCartney, and brings to life the experience of the first post-imperial generation, from the Notting Hill riots to the first Beatles hits, from the Profumo scandal to the cult of James Bond.
language: English
title: Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
titlecomplete: Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
characters: Alec Douglas-Home, Brian Epstein, Anthony Blunt, Harold Wilson, David Frost, Richard Hoggart, Peter Cook, Len Deighton, Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Guy Burgess, Harold Macmillan, Ian Fleming, Charles de Gaulle, John Lennon, Dudley Moore, Dean Acheson, Alan Bennett, Tony Benn, Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Paul Johnson, Rab Butler, Cliff Richard, John Osborne, Sydney Newman, Anthony Eden, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Jonathan Miller, Raymond Williams, Paul McCartney, Colin Wilson, John le Carré, Enoch Powell
genres: 20th Century, Society, Politics, Nonfiction, Historical, Cultural, Economics, British Literature, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 743
series: Dominic Sandbrook’s History of Britain
publisher: Little, Brown Book Group