High Sixties: The Summers of Riot and Love

by Roger Hutchinson

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 1851584374
  • ISBN13 9781851584376
  • Publish Date September 1992
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 16 March 2007
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Imprint Mainstream Publishing
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Language English