Product Description

Nineteen sixty saw JFK voted in as the youngest President of the United States, 1961 saw the first man in space, Harold Wilson became the new Labour Prime Minister in 1964, and 1965 saw the death of Winston Churchill. This work includes reminiscences of the Swinging Sixties.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #396162 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Customer Reviews

these were not MY 60s
Having bought and loved 'The Best of Times,Growing up in Britain in the 1950s'I thought this book would be just as magaical.

I was wrong. While children born in the late 40s all shared similar experiences in the 50s, Dressing paper dolls,Meccano,Festival of Britain, Muffin the Mule etc. we had all gone in very different directions by the mid 60s.

This book is based mostly around London and while I could relate with joy to nearly all the things we did in the 50s this felt to me like someone else's era.

It seems to revolve around people who indulged in soft drugs and sex. Rural Leicestershire was not heavy on these things!

I would have liked more about the news at the time, this was covered only very briefly. Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Profumo affair and the Kennedy assasination are only touched on and to most teenagers were the most important talking points in our lives for a long time.

We were not all able to buy designer clothes and go to London nightclubs. I feel Allison Pressley should have cast her net wider to get memories of the 60s.

I bought 'The Best of Times' book for lots of my friends and cousins, I read through this one myself and thought 'what a shame it could have been just as good'. There again we had so many opportunities in the 60s it's no wonder that 10 years on from the 50s we had all found so many different things to do.

Is she writes one about the 70s I ask her please ask more of us for our experiences first, I'm sure this would help her to make a truer record of baby boomers in that decade.

A very good brief to the 1960's...
..that will give you a good insight in to what was happening at the time; the clothes, politics, households and of the course the great music!!...

Word of warning though!
I bought this, an excellent it is. But having already purchased 'The 50s and 60s, The Best of Times: Growing up and Being Young in Britain' by Alison Pressley, I didn't realise it was exactly one half of that book. So I have it twice. It's ok, as I'll give it as a gift, but it doesn't mention this anywhere, so is not clear and might be usual to know.