A Northern Wind - Britain 1962-65

''Few historians have the power to make you feel you actually inhabit the times they are writing about. Kynaston does.'' Sunday Times , Books of the Decade How much can change in less than two and a half years? In the case of Britain in the Sixties, the answer is: almost everything. From the seismic coming of the Beatles to a sex scandal that rocked the Tory government to the arrival at No 10 of Harold Wilson, a prime minister utterly different from his Old Etonian predecessors. A Northern Wind , the keenly anticipated next instalment of David Kynaston''s acclaimed Tales of a New Jerusalem series, brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965. Drawing upon an unparalleled array of diaries, newspapers and first-hand recollections, Kynaston''s masterful storytelling refreshes familiar events - the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Big Freeze, the assassination of JFK, the funeral of Winston Churchill - while revealing in all their variety the experiences of the people living through this history.Major themes complement the compelling narrative: an anti-Establishment mood epitomised by the BBC''s controversial That Was The Week That Was ; a welfare state only slowly becoming more responsive to the individual needs of its users; and the rise of consumer culture, as Habitat arrived and shopping centres like Birmingham''s Bull Ring proliferated. Multi-voiced, multi-dimensional and immersive, Tales of a New Jerusalem has transformed how we see and understand post-war Britain. A Northern Wind continues the journey.>

Product details

• Authors: David Kynaston
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2023
• EAN: 9781526657572
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-5757-2
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 60 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Europe / Western, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General