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Book Review: ‘The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution’ by Claire Langhammer
From emotional blackmail to Fifties 'hook-ups', there's little that's new.
Read More »Book Review: If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley
An enjoyable read that will add to your trivia collection rather than your historical understanding.
Read More »Book Review: The Me Generation… By Me: Growing Up in the ’60s by Ken Levine
The Me Generation... By Me is a funny, realistic memoir of growing up in the '60s
Read More »Book Review: Words to Eat By: Five Foods and the Culinary History of the English Language by Ina Lipkowitz
Calamari in a trattoria sounds much more appealing than a pan of squid at home.
Read More »Book Review: Fug You – A History of the Counterculture by Ed Sanders
Fugs leader still recalls life in the radical underground during the sixties.
Read More »Book Review: Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz
In Bob Dylan in America Sean Wilentz provides a study of Dylan's influences and source materials and of Dylan himself.
Read More »Book Review: 1969: The Year Everything Changed by Rob Kirkpatrick
Excellent historical account of a year when extraordinary things occurred month by month.
Read More »An Interview with Eric Burns, Author of Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: Television’s Conquest of America in the Fifties
"We were captivated, mesmerized, hypnotized. Thus, Eve Arden, who played a school teacher, received offers to be a school teacher in real life."
Read More »Book Review: The Worst Street in London by Fiona Rule
Unsympathetic, poorly researched attempt at social history.
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