The air, the buildings, the clothing, the faces, the mood. Britain in the mid-1950s was everything it had been for decades, even centuries: world power; sire of glorious intellectual, aesthetic and political traditions; gritty vanquisher of the Nazis; civilizing docent to whippersnapper America; bastion of decency, decorum and the done thing.
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Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
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Ready, Steady, Go!
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"The air, the buildings, the clothing, the faces, the mood. Britain in the mid-1950s was everything it had been for decades, even centuries: world power; sire of glorious intellectual, aesthetic and political traditions; gritty vanquisher of the Nazis; civilizing docent to whippersnapper America; bastion of decency, decorum and the done thing."
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