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1956: the year that changed Britain

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1956: a defining year that heralded the modern era.

Britain and France occupied Suez, and the Soviet Union tanks rolled into Hungary.

Nikita Khrushchev's 'secret speech' exposed the crimes of Stalin, and the Royal Court Theatre unveiled John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

Rock 'n' roll music was replacing the gentle pop songs of Mum and Dad's generation, and it was the first full year of independent television.

As post-war assumptions were shattered, the upper middle class was shaken and the communist left was shocked, radical new ideas about sex, skiffle and socialism emerged, and attitudes shifted on an unprecedented scale - precipitated by the decline of Attlee's Britain and the first intimations of Thatcher's.

From politics and conflict to sport and entertainment, this extraordinary book transports us back in time on a whirlwind journey through the history, headlines and happenings of this most momentous of years, vividly capturing the revolutionary spirit of 1956 - the year that changed Britain.

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Biteback Publishing
1849549885 / 9781849549882
eBook (EPUB)
13/10/2015
England
English
184 pages
Copy: 20%; print: 20%
Description based on print version record.