Introduction: Reading the Sixties1. Post-war Britain, 1945-592. Consumerism, youth and sixties pop music3. Anxieties, faith and intellectuals4. Conservative crisis and Labour recovery, 1959-645. On screen6. ‘Swinging London’ and the ‘long front of culture’7. Labour’s first term and the politics of race8. Permissiveness and counter-culture9. Poverty and devaluation10. 1968, cultural crisis and women’s liberation11. Powellism and nationalist politics12. Labour crisis and Conservative recovery, 1968-70ConclusionBibliographyIndex