More than an autobiography, this first volume in a series of four is an educational history of the period 1950-1970 in its own right. As a bonus, the author invites us into a London working class suburban world and gives us in unblushing detail a close-up account of people, personalities and events. It is about the Sputnik Generation and the fears and anxieties of those brought up during the post-war reconstruction and the Cold War. It is also about the explosion in university student numbers in the sixties and the new wave of rising expectations, mass culture and student socialist politics. Further volumes covering a personal social history of the seventies, eighties and nineties will be published shortly.
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