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    1956: The Year That Changed Britain

    By Francis Beckett

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBiteback Publishing
    Release dateOct 13, 2015
    ISBN9781849549882
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    1956: The Year That Changed Britain
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    Francis Beckett

    Francis Beckett is an author, journalist, broadcaster and contemporary historian. His books include Gordon Brown, The Great City Academy Fraud and Clem Atlee.

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    • 3/5
      Plus a bit more star. This was a 60th birthday present and it's interesting to look back and see what my parents must have been going through that year. My parents were communists and my dad had gone to Spain to fight with the International Brigade so the Communist Stalin revelations must have touched them deeply. I already knew about Hungary but hadn't realised that the Suez debacle was happening at the same time.
      I liked the way the book ranged back and forward to place 1956 in context and the music and theater covered was interesting but unmemorable.
    • 3/5
      mildly interesting if you were born that year, with the exception of the Suez crisis that makes you wonder if we will ever learn lessons fro history