NOTES
- Quoted in Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, ‘Major Goes Back to the Old Values', Guardian, 9 October 1993.
- ‘Another Golden Age That Never Was', Guardian, 9 October 1993.
- Abigail Wills, ‘Delinquency, Masculinity and Citizenship in England, 1950–1970’, Past and Present, No. 187, May 2005, p. 159. See also Catherine Ellis, ‘The Younger Generation: The Labour Party and the 1959 Youth Commission’, The Journal of British Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2, April 2002, pp. 200–1.
- Claire Langhamer has noted, for instance, that the period has been identified as ‘a golden age of marriage’ but has demonstrated convincingly that this model ‘cannot be taken at face value’. See Claire Langhamer, ‘Sexual Politics in Mid Twentieth-century Britain: Adultery in Post-war England’, History Workshop Journal, Issue 62, 2006, pp. 88 and 97. See also Stephen Brooke, ‘Gender and Working Class Identity in Britain during the 1950s’, Journal of Social History, Vol. 34, No. 4, Summer 2001, pp. 774–5, on the evolution of working-class attitudes towards marriage and gender roles in the 1950s.
- See Bruce Pilbeam, ‘Social Morality’, in Kevin Hickson (ed.), The Political Thought of the Conservative Party since 1945 (Basingstoke, 2005), pp. 160–70. See also Carole Cadwalladr, ‘Mummy, Is This a Rip-off?’, Observer, 12 August 2007. This is a review of The Great Big Glorious Book for Girls by Rosemary Davidson and Sarah Vine which Cadwalladr describes tellingly as ‘a primer for any girl whose ambition is to be a Fifties housewife’. Alternative examples of ‘the Fifties' as a shorthand term abound.
- See, for instance, Matt Houlbrook and Chris Waters, ‘The Heart in Exile: Detachment and Desire in 1950s London’, History Workshop Journal, Issue 62, 2006, pp. 145 and 156 on moral panics regarding homosexuality in the 1950s.
- Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (Toronto, 1987) and Andrew Jamison and Ron Eyerman, Seeds of the Sixties (Berkeley, 1994).
- Becky Conekin, Frank Mort, Chris Waters (eds), ‘Introduction’, in Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain, 1954–1964 (London and New York, 1999), p. 20.
- Wills, ‘Delinquency’, p. 159.
- Frank Mort, ‘Striptease: The Erotic Female Body and Live Sexual Entertainment in Mid-twentieth-century London’, Social History, Vol. 32, No. 1, February 2007, p. 29.
- Arthur Marwick, The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958–c. 1974 (Oxford, 1998), especially pp. 6–8 and pp. 17–20.
- John Major, Autobiography (London, 1999), p. 388. For extracts from Tony Blair's speech on the 1960s see Matthew Tempest, ‘Labour Unveils Crime “Crusade”’, Guardian, 19 July 2004.
- David Kynaston, Austerity Britain, 1945–51 (London, 2007), pp. 373–6.
- Langhamer, ‘Sexual Politics', pp. 93 and 110.
- Quoted in Bruce Pilbeam, ‘Social Morality’, p. 165.
- Kynaston, Austerity Britain, pp. 364–8.
- Wills, ‘Delinquency’, pp. 175, 182 and 185.
- Kynaston, Austerity Britain, p. 22.
- Ibid., p. 48.
- Ibid., p. 59.
- Ibid., p. 126.
- Ibid., p. 127.
- Peter Hennessy, Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties (London, 2006), p. 7.
- Ibid., pp. 491–6.
- Ibid., p. 502.
- Ibid., p. 505.
- Ibid., pp. 505–9. See also Marwick, The Sixties, p. 19.
- Hennessy, Having It So Good, p. 511.
- Mark Jarvis, Conservative Governments, Morality and Social Change in Affluent Britain, 1957–64 (Manchester, 2005), p. 1.
- Ibid., pp. 2–5 and 9–10.
- Ibid., pp. 7 and 10.
- Mark Donnelly, Sixties Britain: Culture, Society, Politics (London, 2005), pp. xii.
- Ibid., pp. 5–14.
- Ibid., pp. xii–xiii.
- Ibid., pp. 196–7.