Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965–66: Tales of a New Jerusalem
Autor David Kynastonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 sep 2026
'A tour de force of popular history' BLAKE MORRISON, GUARDIAN
'This glorious historical monument slows, expands and luxuriously stretches to encompass one of the defining moments of change in our history' PHILIP HENSHER, SPECTATOR
'The poet of postwar Britain . . . In a league of his own' JONATHAN COE
The sixth book in the celebrated 'Tales of a New Jerusalem' series - named one of the best books of the 21st century by the Sunday Times
It's the heart of the Sixties in Britain - the Beatles and the Stones vie at the top of the charts, England win the World Cup, and optimism and patriotism percolate through the streets. But this is not the full story of those years. Disaffection on the political left increasingly focuses on the escalating Vietnam War; and the ambitious hopes of Harold Wilson's Labour government start to founder on the parlous state of the pound.
This was a time of looking both backwards and forwards - sweeping reforms to secondary education, huge swathes of urban redevelopment, and the irresistible rise of a confident, free-spending youth culture. Yet everyday life for many, especially beyond the big cities, bore striking resemblance to decades earlier.
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, including diaries of ordinary people, to paint a richly nuanced picture of unrivalled detail. Deep Into the Sixties continues to revolutionise how we see post-war Britain.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526657640
ISBN-10: 1526657643
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 158 x 238 x 62 mm
Greutate: 1.05 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Seria Tales of a New Jerusalem
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526657643
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 158 x 238 x 62 mm
Greutate: 1.05 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Seria Tales of a New Jerusalem
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Deep into the Sixties is as thrilling as ever - a funny, sad, moving portrait of a country struggling to come to terms with its destiny . . . Disarmingly poetic . . . The breadth of Kynaston's knowledge and curiosity keeps the narrative buoyant. Wonderful details abound
In the compelling double vision of David Kynaston's ongoing chronicle of Britain, we are now in the mid-1960s . . . Kynaston is always alive to ambivalence, understands that in the realm of feeling not much is (as it were) black and white . . . His essential quality is decency, almost a gentleness in the way he makes his points without grandstanding, his grasp of the issues absolute yet his judgments tentative . . . Deep into the Sixties is packed full of amazing information, seamless in its stitching and faultless in the telling
David Kynaston doesn't underplay the excitements of the period. But he rightly emphasises that the rotten old 50s - patriarchal, homophobic, class-divided and bigoted - wouldn't just fade away . . . No living historian is as comprehensive . . . full of humour and never dull . . . The last section of the book is a tour de force . . . "I retreat upstairs to my bedroom and play a side of a Nancy Sinatra album, reckoning it will see both me and England through." It did. The match was a triumph and so is the book
Richly evokes the texture of a decade that was often dubbed "swinging" - but was, for many, a time of unsettling change and death of tradition . . . Bring[s] to life, almost moment by moment, two years of dramatic social and cultural change that in many parts of the UK was "only just starting to happen, and perhaps in some places not even that". Britain exported sexy bands, actors and fashions. But at home, the optimism about Harold Wilson's Labour government was wearing off. Employment was high but everything was getting more expensive . . . For the most part, chapters take the form of immersive, chronological accounts of everything that was happening everywhere. Political events run alongside entries from ordinary people's diaries, childhood reminiscences by artists and writers such as Viv Albertine, Hanif Kureishi, Derek Jarman and Malorie Blackman . . . Kynaston's triumph is to so thoroughly achieve the same effect that you don't have to have lived it the first time round
Remarkable . . . A sequence of colossally researched, witty, well-crafted, fun-loving and quietly impassioned social histories . . . Kynaston's books are little (or rather, large) miracles of research, oozing with primary sources
Many of the most celebrated moments in 'the Sixties' are here present . . . Wonderfully interesting and enjoyable . . . An unforeseen magic is creeping over the sequence as it progresses . . . Most books I get sent to review get dispatched to the charity shop quite quickly; these books of Kynaston's have remained on a much-cherished shelf
The sixth volume in David Kynaston's history of postwar Britain covers the eighteen months between the death of Winston Churchill and England's victory over Germany in the World Cup . . . Indeed, there was already hope in the air - what Kynaston describes as a palpable sense that possibilities were opening up . . . On the other hand - and this is the burden of Kynaston's story - continuity was probably more marked than change . . . The daemon of Kynaston's saga is in the detail. It is animated by minutiae, thumbnail sketches, arcane vignettes, evanescent slices of life . . . [A] magnificent series
In David Kynaston's telling, the past is like a gigantic flicker-book
There is no better guide than David Kynaston's epic chronicling of postwar Britain, the sixth volume of which is as immersively readable history as anyone could wish
Absorbing . . . Draws on hundreds of diaries, reviews, speeches and reports, piling quote upon quote to extraordinary effect. The effect is impressionistic, like turning the dial through long-wave stations on an old radio . . . Poignant, revelatory and enormous fun to read, Deep into the Sixties melds the cultural and the political in a way very few historians manage
An intimate and extensive dive into the heart of British life in the Sixties - a period today that is cherished for its great cultural richness. Yet Kynaston details how this 'swinging' era was far more unsettled than what The Beatles and a free-thinking youth might suggest. Progress was slow. In many ways the Sixties that we think of, he explains, would take until the Seventies to get going. Covering one landmark year - from after Churchill's death in early 1965 to England's Wembley triumph in July 1966 - Kynaston uses a plethora of contemporary and historic sources to demystify and inform. The latest instalment in his acclaimed series, Tales of a New Jerusalem, and named one of Sunday Times Best Books of the twenty first century, Deep into the Sixties makes very real this increasingly faraway time, interweaving the hopes and pains of domestic life with the global news stories that shaped the years to come
Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965-66 is the latest volume in David Kynaston's magisterial social history series . . . Based on troves of period documents, from personal diaries and newspaper reports to government surveys, each book moves chronologically through its allotted period . . . The reader is fully immersed in an era that, as Kynaston makes clear, seems more in hock to the war than Warhol; a nation less swinging than singing along to Julie Andrews . . . There are just so many fascinating nuggets of information
The most humane and even-handed chronicler of our time
The poet of postwar Britain . . . Modern history has never been more popular, but the scale and detail of Kynaston's work puts him in a league of his own
In the book trade there is a buzz word: "Kynastonesque". It describes big social history books, with expansive narrative sweeps and formidable sources, which celebrate domestic intimacies against the background of public events
The latest increment of David Kynaston's epic, ongoing and irresistible history of Britain from 1945 to 1979
Another evocative, in many places eye-opening portrait of an era
Dazzling, compendious and finely judged. Post-war Britain has no finer chronicler
Magnificent . . . The early Sixties have never been recounted so well
In the compelling double vision of David Kynaston's ongoing chronicle of Britain, we are now in the mid-1960s . . . Kynaston is always alive to ambivalence, understands that in the realm of feeling not much is (as it were) black and white . . . His essential quality is decency, almost a gentleness in the way he makes his points without grandstanding, his grasp of the issues absolute yet his judgments tentative . . . Deep into the Sixties is packed full of amazing information, seamless in its stitching and faultless in the telling
David Kynaston doesn't underplay the excitements of the period. But he rightly emphasises that the rotten old 50s - patriarchal, homophobic, class-divided and bigoted - wouldn't just fade away . . . No living historian is as comprehensive . . . full of humour and never dull . . . The last section of the book is a tour de force . . . "I retreat upstairs to my bedroom and play a side of a Nancy Sinatra album, reckoning it will see both me and England through." It did. The match was a triumph and so is the book
Richly evokes the texture of a decade that was often dubbed "swinging" - but was, for many, a time of unsettling change and death of tradition . . . Bring[s] to life, almost moment by moment, two years of dramatic social and cultural change that in many parts of the UK was "only just starting to happen, and perhaps in some places not even that". Britain exported sexy bands, actors and fashions. But at home, the optimism about Harold Wilson's Labour government was wearing off. Employment was high but everything was getting more expensive . . . For the most part, chapters take the form of immersive, chronological accounts of everything that was happening everywhere. Political events run alongside entries from ordinary people's diaries, childhood reminiscences by artists and writers such as Viv Albertine, Hanif Kureishi, Derek Jarman and Malorie Blackman . . . Kynaston's triumph is to so thoroughly achieve the same effect that you don't have to have lived it the first time round
Remarkable . . . A sequence of colossally researched, witty, well-crafted, fun-loving and quietly impassioned social histories . . . Kynaston's books are little (or rather, large) miracles of research, oozing with primary sources
Many of the most celebrated moments in 'the Sixties' are here present . . . Wonderfully interesting and enjoyable . . . An unforeseen magic is creeping over the sequence as it progresses . . . Most books I get sent to review get dispatched to the charity shop quite quickly; these books of Kynaston's have remained on a much-cherished shelf
The sixth volume in David Kynaston's history of postwar Britain covers the eighteen months between the death of Winston Churchill and England's victory over Germany in the World Cup . . . Indeed, there was already hope in the air - what Kynaston describes as a palpable sense that possibilities were opening up . . . On the other hand - and this is the burden of Kynaston's story - continuity was probably more marked than change . . . The daemon of Kynaston's saga is in the detail. It is animated by minutiae, thumbnail sketches, arcane vignettes, evanescent slices of life . . . [A] magnificent series
In David Kynaston's telling, the past is like a gigantic flicker-book
There is no better guide than David Kynaston's epic chronicling of postwar Britain, the sixth volume of which is as immersively readable history as anyone could wish
Absorbing . . . Draws on hundreds of diaries, reviews, speeches and reports, piling quote upon quote to extraordinary effect. The effect is impressionistic, like turning the dial through long-wave stations on an old radio . . . Poignant, revelatory and enormous fun to read, Deep into the Sixties melds the cultural and the political in a way very few historians manage
An intimate and extensive dive into the heart of British life in the Sixties - a period today that is cherished for its great cultural richness. Yet Kynaston details how this 'swinging' era was far more unsettled than what The Beatles and a free-thinking youth might suggest. Progress was slow. In many ways the Sixties that we think of, he explains, would take until the Seventies to get going. Covering one landmark year - from after Churchill's death in early 1965 to England's Wembley triumph in July 1966 - Kynaston uses a plethora of contemporary and historic sources to demystify and inform. The latest instalment in his acclaimed series, Tales of a New Jerusalem, and named one of Sunday Times Best Books of the twenty first century, Deep into the Sixties makes very real this increasingly faraway time, interweaving the hopes and pains of domestic life with the global news stories that shaped the years to come
Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965-66 is the latest volume in David Kynaston's magisterial social history series . . . Based on troves of period documents, from personal diaries and newspaper reports to government surveys, each book moves chronologically through its allotted period . . . The reader is fully immersed in an era that, as Kynaston makes clear, seems more in hock to the war than Warhol; a nation less swinging than singing along to Julie Andrews . . . There are just so many fascinating nuggets of information
The most humane and even-handed chronicler of our time
The poet of postwar Britain . . . Modern history has never been more popular, but the scale and detail of Kynaston's work puts him in a league of his own
In the book trade there is a buzz word: "Kynastonesque". It describes big social history books, with expansive narrative sweeps and formidable sources, which celebrate domestic intimacies against the background of public events
The latest increment of David Kynaston's epic, ongoing and irresistible history of Britain from 1945 to 1979
Another evocative, in many places eye-opening portrait of an era
Dazzling, compendious and finely judged. Post-war Britain has no finer chronicler
Magnificent . . . The early Sixties have never been recounted so well
Notă biografică
David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. He holds a degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of Austerity Britain, 1945-51; Family Britain, 1951-57; Modernity Britain 1957-1962; On the Cusp; Days of '62; and A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65, all volumes in a series covering the history of post-war Britain (1945-79) under the collective title 'Tales of a New Jerusalem'. Till Time's Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England, 1694-2013 was published in 2017. He is also author of Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket, co-authored with Stephen Fay, Engines of Privilege, co-authored with Francis Green, Shots in the Dark, an account of the 2016/17 season of David's football team, Aldershot and Richie Benaud's Blue Suede Shoes: The Story of an Ashes Classic co-authored with Harry Ricketts.