“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” The words of Howard Beale, the fictional anchorman in the 1970s hit film Network, struck a chord with a generation of Americans. From the disgr
SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015. Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing base is a shadow of its former self; the Royal Navy has been reduced to a skeleton. In military, diplomatic and economic
The book behind major BBC2 series "The Seventies", Dominic Sandbrook's "State of Emergency - The Way We Were: Britain 1970-74" is a brilliant history of the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the earl
The early 1980s were the most dramatic, colourful and controversial in our modern history. Margaret Thatcher had come to power with a daring plan to reverse Britain's decline into shabbiness and chaos
The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980s: the most dramatic, colourful and controversial years in our recent history.Margaret Thatcher had come
The sequel to Never Had It So Good completes Dominic Sandbrook's groundbreaking history of Britain in the 1960s,?weaving together?politics, sports, art, fashion, social trends, language, and popular c
'An exuberant and learned celebration of British culture' Observer Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim sup
Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture of a so
Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain - the book behind the major BB2 series The Seventies The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw infl
