The Sixties are there in the first sentence of the first chapter of this social, political and cultural history of the decade:
On the first day of October 1963, as the earliest whispers of dawn were edging across the cliff tops of the Yorkshire resort of Scarborough, the new leader of the Labour party nervously paced up and down the carpet of his hotel suite.
They are there in the first sentence of the second chapter:
Shortly after four o’clock on the afternoon of Friday, 16 October, a sleek black Daimler eased through the rain into the forecourt of Buckingham Palace.
And in the first sentence of the third chapter:
Just before eleven o’clock on the morning of Friday, 8 October 1965, Harold Wilson’s car drew into the narrow streets of Fitzrovia for the official opening of the new Post Office Tower.
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