1965: The Year Modern Britain Was Born

Christopher Bray

Softcover | 13 x 2.2 x 20 cm | 320 pp

Simon & Schuster | 2015 | 9781471157301

It was the year when everything changed – and the year that everyone knew it.
We are still living through the aftershock of the awesome, inspiring impact of 1965. The defining year in a decade of revolution and consumerism, 1965 witnessed an astonishing sequence of events – artistic, literary, technological, political, ethical – the legacies of which are to be seen in every aspect of life in Britain today.

Profiling and analysing the work of the key players on both sides of the sixties’ revolution, Christopher Bray shows how 1965 is the hinge year in a decade of cultural turnaround. Melding critical exegesis with historical overview, in-depth scholarship with mocking wit, Bray delivers a penetrating analysis of the year that today began.

‘Bray serves up a nostalgia-tinged appraisal of the years key characters and events, never failing to show why these remain relevant’ Observer