{"product_id":"9781526657565","title":"A Northern Wind : Britain 1962-65","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Kynaston, David \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/07\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 704 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781526657565,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern Wind is the anticipated new volume in the landmark ‘Tales of a New Jerusalem’ series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'From Daleks and dingy tower blocks to nuclear threats, this addictively readable book charts dizzying change . . . Sometimes moving, often comic, always fascinating'DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMESHow much can change in two and a half years? In the case of Britain in the Sixties, the answer is: almost everything. From the seismic coming of Liverpool's the Beatles to a sex scandal that rocked the Tory government to the arrival at No 10 of Harold Wilson, a Yorkshireman utterly different from his Old Etonian predecessors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Northern Wind, the keenly anticipated next instalment of David Kynaston’s acclaimed Tales of a New Jerusalem series, brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965. Drawing upon an unparalleled array of diaries, newspapers and first-hand recollections, Kynaston’s masterful storytelling refreshes familiar events – the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Big Freeze, the assassination of JFK, the funeral of Winston Churchill – while revealing in all their variety the experiences of the people living through this history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMajor themes complement the compelling narrative: an anti-Establishment mood epitomised by the BBC’s controversial That Was The Week That Was; a welfare state only slowly becoming more responsive to the individual needs of its users; and the rise of consumer culture, as Habitat arrived and shopping centres like Birmingham’s Bull Ring proliferated. Multi-voiced, multi-dimensional and immersive, Tales of a New Jerusalem has transformed how we see and understand post-war Britain. A Northern Wind continues the journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA WATERSTONES, TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Magnificent . . . The early Sixties have never been recounted so well' THE TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A breathtaking array of treasures . . . A book to savour' TLS'Extraordinarily atmospheric, capturing more than anything a sense of what this moment might have felt like to live through' FINANCIAL TIMES'Kynaston is the most humane and even-handed chronicler of our time, and the one best-qualified to carry this mightily compelling national story onwards' OBSERVER\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43547382054956,"sku":"9781526657565","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781526657565_d86e4bcf-5722-4284-aad3-5fe5671672c6.jpg?v=1759659654","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781526657565","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}