Article: Books: Lawn bowls were all the rage HISTORY White Heat: A history of Britain in the Swinging Sixties By Dominic Sandbrook LITTLE, BROWN pounds 22.50 pounds 20(P&PFREE) 08700 798 897

As an indication of the greater sense of freedom he felt was engendered by the 1960s, the writer Barry Miles, who ran a counter- culture shrine called the Indica bookshop, cited the fact that local councils no longer chained up playground swings on Sundays. The salient question is whether such a change was the result of a revolution in values or whether it would have come about anyway in a mature, evolving society.

The historian Dominic Sandbrook (who mentions Miles, though not the swings) would almost certainly incline to the latter interpretation. Much of this book - the second in a two-volume history of the period from 1956 to 1970 - argues that, contrary to received wisdom, British ...

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