Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties, by Peter Hennessy

David Bell enjoys a lively overview of an era by ‘the doyen of post-war British history’

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January 2, 2020

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January 2, 2020

Party leader Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995) addresses the Labour Party Conference in Scarborough, 30th September 1963

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Print headline: In white heat, the UK was reshaped

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