A 1970s Childhood: From Glam Rock to Happy Days - Derek Tait

The 1970s. The decade that taste forgot, we are sometimes told. It was an era in which Labour and Conservative governments in Britain grappled with an ever recurring balance of payments crisis, powercuts, states of emergency, the IRA and numerous other evils, as recounted recently in painstaking detail in weightier tomes than this by contemporary historians like Dominic Sandbrook and Andy Beckett. Was it like that all the time? Well, no, and especially not if you were growing up, still at school, and only vaguely aware of any of these things, but more preoccupied in the general trivia which ... more