num_pages: 824
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, 1956-63
titlecomplete: Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles, 1956-63
characters: Brian Epstein, Peter Cook, Ian Fleming, Alec Douglas-Home, David Frost, Charles de Gaulle, Anthony Eden, Anthony Blunt, Rab Butler, Guy Burgess, John Osborne, Enoch Powell, Jonathan Miller, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Alan Bennett, Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Dean Acheson, Sydney Newman, Kingsley Amis, John le Carré, Harold Macmillan, Colin Wilson, Philip Larkin, Cliff Richard, Dudley Moore, Len Deighton, Raymond Williams, Harold Wilson, Tony Benn, Paul Johnson, Richard Hoggart
genres: Cultural, Historical, Politics, British Literature, Nonfiction, Economics, 20th Century, Sociology, History, Society
ratings_count: 743
series: Dominic Sandbrook’s History of Britain
publisher: Little, Brown Book Group