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.
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