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1965 - The Year Modern Britain was Born (Paperback)
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There is Britain before 1965 and Britain after 1965 - and they are
not the same thing. 1965 was the year Britain democratised
education, it was the year pop culture began to be taken as
seriously as high art, the time when comedians and television shows
imported the methods of modernism into their work. It was when
communications across the Atlantic became instantaneous, the year
when, for the first time in a century, British artists took
American gallery-goers by storm. In 1965 the Beatles proved that
rock and roll could be art, it was when we went car crazy, and
craziness was held to be the only sane reaction to an insane
society. It was the year feminism went mainstream, the year, did
she but know it, that the Thatcher revolution began, the year
taboos were talked up - and trashed. It was when racial
discrimination was outlawed and the death penalty abolished; it
marked the appointment of Roy Jenkins as Home Secretary, who became
chief architect in legislating homosexuality, divorce, abortion and
censorship. It was the moment that our culture, reeling from what
are still the most shocking killings of the century, realised it
was a less innocent, less spiritual place than it had been kidding
itself. It was the year of consumerist relativism that gave us the
country we live in today and the year the idea of a home full of
cultural artefacts - books, records, magazines - was born. It was
the year when everything changed - and the year that everyone knew
it.
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