Cover of Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

by John Davis

600 pages2022Princeton University PressISBN 9780691220529

About this book

'Why London? Why now?': The swinging moment -- The death of the Sixties (1). Soho - Sixties London's erogenous zone -- The death of the Sixties (2): The fall of the House of Biba -- 'Now that Londoners have discovered the delights of the palate': eating out in Sixties and Seventies London -- 'Hot property - it's mine!' The lure and the limits of home ownership -- 'You only have to look at Westway.' The end of the urban motorway in London -- The conservation consensus -- East End Docklands and the death of Poplarism -- The London cabbie and the rise of Essex man -- Protecting the good life. London's suburbs -- Containing racism? The London experience, 1957-1968 -- Unquiet grove. The 1976 Notting Hill carnival riot -- Reshaping the welfare state? Voluntary action and community in London, 1960-1975 -- Strains of labour in the inner city -- Selling swinging London, or coming to terms with the tourist -- Becoming post-Industrial -- Bibliography.

Publication Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
2022
Pages
600
ISBN
9780691220529
Language
en

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