Deep into the Sixties
Britain 1965–66
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Deep into the Sixties
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‘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
‘My goodness, [the series] rockets along: every page contains something surprising, something funny, something sad' CRAIG BROWN, SUNDAY TIMES
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.©2026 David Kynaston (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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 (Craig Brown)
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 (Blake Morrison)
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 (Jonathan McAloon)
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 (Philip Hensher)
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