High sixties - Roger Hutchinson

This is an anecdotal and analytical, biographical and autobiographical account of the social revolution that swept through Britain and Europe in the decade now known nostalgically as th "Swinging Sixties". It spans the era from the recognition of the end of old colonialism (Harold Macmillan's famous "winds of change" blowing across Africa), the Lady Chatterley's Lover trial and the Profumo affair to the Old Bailey and the prosecution for obscenity of Oz magazine in the autumn of 1971. As author Roger Hutchinson writes, the Chatterley trial "Had as much resemblance to, say, the trail of Oz magazine 10 years later as did a medieval joust to the Battle of the Somme.;This work chronicles the characters and events of a decade which spawned the "permissive society", "beautiful people", mods, rockers, women's libbers and a vibrant underground press. It looks at the clashes of personalities and politics, the culture and counter-culture of a period that witnessed the rise of a generation which so comprehensively rejected all that was dear and familiar in the past.