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
'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
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
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
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
