Select Bibliography

Biography, Memoirs, Diaries, Autobiography, Oral Histories

Adie, Kate, The Kindness of Strangers, Headline, London, 2002

Bakewell, Joan, The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2003

Barber, Lynn, An Education, Penguin, London, 2009

Beaton, Cecil, Beaton in the Sixties: The Cecil Beaton Diaries, as They Were Written, introduced by Hugo Vickers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2003

Beddoe, Deirdre, ed., Changing Times: Welsh Women Writing on the 1950s and 1960s, Honno, Dinas Powys, 2003

Bell, Barbara, Just Take Your Frock Off: A Lesbian Life, Ourstory, Brighton, 1999

Benjamin, Floella, Coming to England, Pavilion, London, 1995

———, The Arms of Britannia: The Teenage Years of Floella Benjamin, Walker, London, 2010

Bennett, Mary, An Autobiography, St Hilda’s College, Oxford, 2006

Berry, Mary, Recipe for Life, Michael Joseph, London, 2013

Beyfus, Drusilla, The English Marriage: What It is Like to be Married Today, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1968

Black, Cilla, Step Inside, Dent, London, 1985

Boycott, Rosie, A Nice Girl Like Me: A Story of the Seventies, Chatto & Windus, London, 1984

Boyd, Pattie with Penny Junor, Wonderful Today: The Autobiography, Headline Review, London, 2007

Bron, Eleanor, The Pillow Book of Eleanor Bron – or – An Actress Despairs, Jonathan Cape, London, 1985

Charles, Caroline, Fifty Years in Fashion: The Diaries and Scrapbooks of a Leading Designer, ACC, Woodbridge, 2012

Christiansen, Rupert, I Know You’re Going to be Happy, Short Books, London, 2013

Clark, Ossie, The Ossie Clark Diaries, edited and introduced by Lady Henrietta Rous, Bloomsbury, London, 1998

Cleveland, Carol with Peter Jarrette, Pompoms Up! From Puberty to Python and Beyond, Dynasty Press, London, 2014

Coddington, Grace with Michael Roberts, Grace: A Memoir, Chatto & Windus, London, 2012

Curtis, Hélène and Mimi Sanderson, eds., The Unsung Sixties: Memoirs of Social Innovation, Whiting & Birch, London, 2004

Davies, Hunter, The Beatles, revised edition, W. W. Norton, New York, 2002

de Villeneuve, Justin, An Affectionate Punch, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1986

Des Barres, Pamela, I’m with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Helter Skelter, London, 2003

Devlin, Bernadette, The Price of My Soul, André Deutsch, London, 1969

Diski, Jenny, The Sixties, Profile, London, 2009

Dundy, Elaine, Life Itself!, Virago, London, 2001

Dunn, Nell, Talking to Women, MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1965

Etchingham, Kathy with Andrew Crofts, Through Gypsy Eyes, Victor Gollancz, London, 1998

Faithfull, Marianne with David Dalston, Faithfull, Michael Joseph, London, 1994

Farquharson, Robin, Drop Out, Anthony Blond, London, 1968

Forster, Margaret, Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir, Viking, London, 1995

Fryer, Jonathan, Soho in the Fifties and Sixties, National Portrait Gallery Publications, London, 1998

Galloway, Janice, All Made Up, Granta, London, 2012

Gee, Maggie, My Animal Life, Telegram, London, 2010

Goldie, Grace Wyndham, Facing the Nation: Television and Politics, 1936–1976, The Bodley Head, London, 1977

Goldsmith, Annabel, Annabel – An Unconventional Life: The Memoirs of Lady Annabel Goldsmith, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004

Green, Felicity with Sinty Stemp, Sex, Sense and Nonsense: Felicity Green on the ’60s Fashion Scene, ACC, Woodbridge, 2014

Green, Jonathon, Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961–1971, Heinemann, London, 1988

Halasz, Piri, A Memoir of Creativity: Abstract Painting, Politics & the Media, 1956–2008, iUniverse, New York, 2009

Hamblett, Charles and Jane Deverson, Generation X, Tandem, London, 1964

Hart, Jenifer, Ask Me No More: An Autobiography, Peter Halban, London, 1998

Haynes, Jim, ‘Thanks for Coming’: An Autobiography, Faber & Faber, London, 1984

Healey, Edna, Part of the Pattern: Memoirs of a Wife at Westminster, Headline Review, London, 2006

Hughes, Shirley, A Life Drawing, The Bodley Head, London, 2002

Hulanicki, Barbara, From A to Biba: The Autobiography of Barbara Hulanicki, V&A Publications, London, 2007

Hunt, Marsha, Real Life, Chatto & Windus, London, 1986

Hurst, Margery, No Glass Slipper, Arlington, London, 1967

Ingham, Mary, Now We are Thirty: Women of the Breakthrough Generation, Eyre Methuen, London, 1981

Ironside, Janey, Janey, Michael Joseph, London, 1973

Jackson, Laura, Heart of Stone: The Unauthorised Life of Mick Jagger, Smith Gryphon, London, 1997

Keeler, Christine with Douglas Thompson, The Truth at Last: My Story, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 2001

Kochan, Nicholas, Ann Widdecombe: Right from the Beginning, Politico’s, London, 2000

Kukil, Karen V., ed., The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962, Faber & Faber, London, 2001

Kurtz, Irma, My Life in Agony, Alma, Richmond, 2014

Landau, Cécile, ed., Growing Up in the Sixties, Macdonald Optima, London, 1991

Lavery, Brian W., The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster of 1968, Barbican Press, London, 2015

Lennon, Cynthia, A Twist of Lennon, Star, London, 1978

Leslie, Ann, Killing My Own Snakes: A Memoir, Macmillan, London, 2008

Lessing, Doris, Walking in the Shade: Volume 2 of My Autobiography, 1949–1962, HarperCollins, London, 1997

MacCarthy, Fiona, Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes, Faber & Faber, London, 2006

Maitland, Sara, ed., Very Heaven: Looking Back at the 1960s, Virago, London, 1988

Marowitz, Charles, Burnt Bridges: A Souvenir of the Swinging Sixties and Beyond, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1990

Martin, Priscilla and Anne Rowe, Iris Murdoch: A Literary Life, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010

Melly, Diana, Take a Girl Like Me: Life with George, Chatto & Windus, London, 2005

Moraes, Henrietta, Henrietta, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1994

Neville, Richard, Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-Ins, the Screw-Ups, the SIXTIES, Bloomsbury, London, 1995

———, Playpower, Jonathan Cape, London, 1970

Nicholson, Vivian and Stephen Smith, Spend, Spend, Spend, Jonathan Cape, London, 1977

O’Brien, Edna, Country Girl: A Memoir, Faber & Faber, London, 2012

Ollerenshaw, Dame Kathleen, To Talk of Many Things: An Autobiography, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2004

Partridge, Frances, Good Company: Diaries, 1967–1970, HarperCollins, London, 1994

Pasle-Green, Jeanne and Jim Haynes, eds., Hello I Love You: A Collection of Voices, Almonde, Paris, 1974

Patrick, Angela with Lynne Barrett-Lee, The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers, Simon & Schuster, London, 2012

Paul, Kate, Journal, Carrington Press, Hay-on-Wye, 1997

Perkins, Anne, Red Queen: The Authorised Biography of Barbara Castle, Macmillan, London, 2003

Polhemus, Ted, Boom! A Baby Boomer Memoir, 1947–2022, independently published, 2011

Pressley, Alison, Changing Times: Being Young in Britain in the ’60s, Michael O’Mara, London, 2000

Pullar, Philippa, The Shortest Journey, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1981

Quant, Mary, Quant by Quant, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1966

Rankin, Peter, Joan Littlewood – Dreams and Realities: The Official Biography, Oberon, London, 2014

Rice-Davies, Mandy with Shirley Flack, Mandy, Michael Joseph/Sphere, London, 1980

Rosen Obst, Lynda, ed., The Sixties: The Decade Remembered Now, by the People Who Lived It Then, Random House/Rolling Stone, New York, 1977

Rowbotham, Sheila, Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties, Allen Lane, London, 2000

Sage, Lorna, Bad Blood, Fourth Estate, London, 2000

Sassoon, Vidal, Sorry I Kept You Waiting, Madam, Cassell, London, 1968

Shapiro, Helen with Wendy Green, Walking Back to Happiness: My Story, HarperCollins, London, 1993

Shrimpton, Jean with Unity Hall, An Autobiography, Ebury Press, London, 1990

Sinclair, Andrew, In Love and Anger: A View of the Sixties, Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1994

Stott, Mary, Before I Go: Reflections on My Life and Times, Virago London, 1985

———, Forgetting’s No Excuse, Faber & Faber, London, 1973

Tedder, Valerie A., You’ll Never Last: One Policewoman’s Story from 1958–1984, United Press, London, 2010

Tennant, Emma, Girlitude: A Memoir of the 50s and 60s, Jonathan Cape, London, 1999

Twiggy, Twiggy: An Autobiography, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, St Albans, 1975

Wandor, Michelene, ed., Once a Feminist: Stories of a Generation, Virago, London, 1990

Warwick, Christopher, Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts, André Deutsch, London, 2000

Weldon, Fay, Auto da Fay, Flamingo, London, 2002

Whitehorn, Katharine, Selective Memory: An Autobiography, Virago, London, 2007

Whitehouse, Mary, Quite Contrary: An Autobiography, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1993

Widdecombe, Ann, Strictly Ann: The Autobiography, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2013

Willetts, Paul, Members Only: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond, Soho’s Billionaire King of Burlesque, Serpent’s Tail, London, 2010

Wood, Martin, Laura Ashley, Frances Lincoln, London, 2009

Wyn Ellis, Nesta, The Marquess of Bath: Lord of Love, Dynasty, London, 2010

History, Sociology, Psychology, Advice

Aitken, Jonathan, The Young Meteors, Secker & Warburg, London, 1967

Akhtar, Miriam and Steve Humphries, The Fifties and Sixties: A Lifestyle Revolution, Boxtree, London, 2001

Ali, Tariq and Susan Watkins, 1968: Marching in the Streets, Bloomsbury, London, 1998

Aquilina Ross, Geoffrey, The Day of the Peacock: Style for Men, 1963–1973, V&A Publications, London, 2011

Barnes, Richard, ed., Mods!, Plexus, London, 1979

Barrow, Andrew, Gossip: A History of High Society from 1920 to 1970, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978

Bedford, Sybille, The Trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Daunt, London, 2016

Bestic, Alan, Turn Me On Man, Anthony Gibbs/Tandem, London, 1966

Black, Lawrence and Hugh Pemberton, eds., An Affluent Society? Britain’s Post-War ‘Golden Age’ Revisited, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004

Booker, Christopher, The Neophiliacs: A Study of the Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties, Collins, London, 1969

Bowlby, Rachel, Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping, Faber & Faber, London, 2000

Bray, Christopher, 1965: The Year Modern Britain was Born, Simon & Schuster, London, 2014

Broackes, Victoria and Geoffrey Marsh, eds., You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels, 1966–1970, V&A Publications, London, 2016

Bryan, Beverley, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe, The Hearts of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain, Virago, London, 1985

Carpenter, Humphrey, That Was Satire That Was: Beyond the Fringe, The Establishment Club, Private Eye and That Was the Week That Was, Victor Gollancz, London, 2000

Carstairs, Professor G. M., This Island Now: The BBC Reith Lectures, 1962, Hogarth Press, London, 1963

Cartland, Barbara, Barbara Cartland’s Etiquette Handbook: A Guide to Good Behaviour from the Boudoir to the Boardroom, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1962

Caute, David, Sixty-Eight: The Year of the Barricades, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1988

Chesser, Eustace, Is Chastity Outmoded?, May Fair, London, 1960

Cohen, Stanley, Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers, MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1972

Collins, Marcus, ed., The Permissive Society and its Enemies: Sixties British Culture, Rivers Oram Press, London, 2007

Cross, Tom, Artists and Bohemians: 100 Years with the Chelsea Arts Club, Quiller Press, London, 1992

Dallas, Karl, Swinging London: A Guide to Where the Action Is, Stanmore Press, London, 1967

Davenport-Hines, Richard, An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo, William Collins, London, 2013

Davies, Christie, Permissive Britain: Social Change in the Sixties and Seventies, Pitman, London, 1975

Davies, Hunter, ed., The New London Spy: A Discreet Guide to the City’s Pleasures, Anthony Blond, London, 1966

DeGroot, Gerard, The 60s Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade, Macmillan, London, 2008

Dyhouse, Carol, Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women, Zed, London, 2013

———, Students: A Gendered History, Routledge, London, 2006

Edwards, Anne and Drusilla Beyfus, Lady Behave: A Guide to Modern Manners for the 1970s, Cassell, London, 1969

Barbara Ehrenreich, ‘Screams Heard Around the World’, in Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess and Gloria Jacobs, Re-Making Love, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1986

Ferguson, Marjorie, Forever Feminine: Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Femininity, Heinemann Educational, London, 1983

Field, Clive D., Secularization in the Long 1960s: Numerating Religion in Britain, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017

Fogg, Marnie, Boutique: A ’60s Cultural Phenomenon, Mitchell Beazley, London, 2003

Fountain, Nigel, Underground: The London Alternative Press, 1966–74, Routledge, London, 1988

Fraser, Ronald et al., 1968: A Student Generation in Revolt, Chatto & Windus, London, 1968

Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique, Victor Gollancz, London, 1963

Fryer, Peter, Mrs Grundy: Studies in English Prudery, Dennis Dobson, London, 1963

Gaar, Gillian G., She’s a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll, Seal Press, New York, 1992

Gardiner, Jill, From the Closet to the Screen: Women at the Gateways Club, 1945–85, Pandora Press, London, 2003

Gardiner, Juliet, From the Bomb to the Beatles: The Changing Face of Post-war Britain, 1945–1965, Collins & Brown, London, 1999

Gavron, Hannah, The Captive Wife: Conflicts of Housebound Mothers, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1966

Gorer, Geoffrey, Sex and Marriage in England Today: A Study of the Views and Experience of the under-45s, Panther, St Albans, 1973

Grant, Linda, Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution, HarperCollins, London, 1993

Green, Jonathon, All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counterculture, Jonathan Cape, London, 1998

———, It: Sex Since the Sixties, Secker & Warburg, London, 1993

Greer, Germaine, The Female Eunuch, MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1970

Gurley Brown, Helen, Sex and the Single Girl, new edition, Barricade, Fort Lee, NJ, 2003

Haggett, Ali, Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945–1970, Pickering & Chatto, London, 2012

Halasz, Piri, A Swinger’s Guide to London, Coward McCann, New York, 1967

Hall, Lesley A., ed., Outspoken Women: An Anthology of Women’s Writing on Sex, 1870–1969, Routledge, London and New York, 2005

Halsey, A. H., Trends in British Society Since 1900, Macmillan, London, 1972

Hewison, Robert, Too Much: Art and Society in the Sixties, 1960–75, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987

Hewitt, Paolo, ed., The Sharper Word: A Mod Anthology, Helter Skelter, London, 1999

Hills, J., Inequality and the State, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004

Hobsbawm, Eric, Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, Michael Joseph, London, 1994

Holdsworth, Angela, Out of the Doll’s House: The Story of Women in the Twentieth Century, BBC Books, London, 1988

Hulanicki, Barbara and Martin Pel, The Biba Years: 1963–1975, V&A Publications, London, 2014

Jennings, Rebecca, Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-war Britain, 1945–71, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2007

Johnson, Pamela Hansford, On Iniquity: Some Personal Reflections Arising Out of the Moors Murders Trial, Macmillan, London, 1967

Klein, Josephine, Samples from English Cultures, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1965

Kynaston, David, Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice, 1959–1962, Bloomsbury, London, 2014

Laurie, Peter, The Teenage Revolution, Anthony Blond, London, 1965

Lawton, John, 1963 – Five Hundred Days: History as Melodrama, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1992

Lester, Richard, Boutique London – A History: King’s Road to Carnaby Street, ACC, Woodbridge, 2010

Levin, Bernard, The Pendulum Years: Britain and the Sixties, Jonathan Cape, London, 1971

Levy, Shawn, Ready, Steady, Go! Swinging London and the Invention of Cool, Fourth Estate, London, 2003

Lewis, Jane, Women in Britain Since 1945, Blackwell, Oxford, 1992

Liddington, Jill, The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain Since 1820, Virago, 1989

Maclean, Rory, Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India, Viking, London, 2006

Magee, Bryan, One in Twenty: A Study of Homosexuality in Men and Women, Secker & Warburg, London, 1966

Marsden, Dennis, Mothers Alone: Poverty and the Fatherless Family, Allen Lane, London, 1969

Marshall, Cherry, The Cat-Walk, Hutchinson, London, 1978

Marwick, Arthur, The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy and the United States, c.1958–c.1974, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998

Masters, Brian, The Swinging Sixties, Constable, London, 1985

Mellor, David Alan and Laurent Gervereau, eds., The Sixties – Britain and France, 1962–1973: The Utopian Years, Philip Wilson, London, 1997

Mendelsohn, Janet, Varna Road, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2016

Metzger, Rainer, London in the Sixties, Thames & Hudson, London, 2012

Milburn, Claudia and Louise Weller, eds., POP! Art in a Changing Britain, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 2018

Mitchell, Juliet, Women: The Longest Revolution, Virago, London, 1984

Moorhouse, Geoffrey, Britain in the Sixties: The Other England, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1964

Nuttall, Jeff, Bomb Culture, MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1968

Opie, Robert, ed., The 1960s Scrapbook, New Cavendish, London, 2000

Oram, Alison and Annemarie Turnbull, The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780 to 1970, Routledge, London, 2001

Osgerby, Bill, Youth in Britain Since 1945, Blackwell, Oxford, 1988

Padel, Ruth, I’m a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock’n’Roll, Faber & Faber, London, 2000

Paton, Maureen, The Best of Women: The History of Women of the Year, Women’s Press, London, 2000

Rigby, Andrew, Alternative Realities: A Study of Communes and their Members, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974

———, Communes in Britain, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974

Roberts, Elizabeth, Women and Families: An Oral History, 1940–1970, Blackwell, Oxford, 1995

Robinson, Jane, In the Family Way: Illegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties, Viking, London, 2015

Roszak, Theodore, The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition, Faber & Faber, London, 1970

Rycroft, Simon, Swinging City: A Cultural Geography of London, 1950–1974, Ashgate, Farnham, 2011

Salter, Tom, Carnaby Street, ed. David Whitehead, M. & J. Hobbs, Walton-on-Thames, 1970

Sampson, Anthony, The New Anatomy of Britain, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1971

Sandbrook, Dominic, Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles, Abacus, London, 2006

———, White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, Little, Brown, London, 2006

Schofield, Michael, The Sexual Behaviour of Young People, Longmans, London, 1965

Segal, Lynne, ed., What is to be Done About the Family? Crisis in the Eighties, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1983

Shapiro, Harry, Waiting for the Man: The Story of Drugs and Popular Music, Helter Skelter, London, 1999

Shrimpton, Jean, The Truth About Modelling, W. H. Allen, London, 1964

Shteir, Rachel, Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004

Smith, Evan and Matthew Worley, Against the Grain: The British Far Left from 1956, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2014

Sooke, Alistair, Pop Art: A Colourful History, Viking, London, 2015

Tebbutt, Melanie, Women’s Talk? A Social History of ‘Gossip’ in Working-Class Neighbourhoods, 1880–1960, Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1995

Thane, Pat and Tanya Evans, Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012

Thompson, Ben, Ban This Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive, London, Faber & Faber, 2012

Tobin, Fergal, The Best of Decades: Ireland in the Nineteen Sixties, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1984

Tracy, Michael and David Morrison, Whitehouse, Macmillan, 1979

Turnock, Rob, Television and Consumer Culture: Britain and the Transformation of Modernity, I. B. Tauris, London, 2007

Walford, Jonathan, Sixties Fashion: From ‘Less is More’ to Youthquake, Thames & Hudson, London, 2013

Wandor, Michelene, ed., The Body Politic: Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain, 1969–1972, Stage 1, London, 1972

Wheen, Francis, The Sixties: A Fresh Look at the Decade of Change, Century, London, 1982

Whitehorn, Katharine, Cooking in a Bedsitter, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1963

Whitehouse, Mary, Cleaning-Up TV: From Protest to Participation, Blandford, London, 1967

———, Whatever Happened to Sex?, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1977

Whiteley, C. J., and Winifred M. Whiteley, The Permissive Morality, Methuen, London, 1964

Willis, Paul E., Profane Culture, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1978

Willmott, Peter and Michael Young, Family and Class in a London Suburb, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1960

Wood, Kay, Education: The Basics, Routledge, London, 2011

York, Peter, Style Wars, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1980

Fiction, Poetry

Cheek, Mavis, Yesterday’s Houses, Faber & Faber, London, 2006

Duffy, Maureen, The Microcosm, Hutchinson, London, 1966

Dunn, Nell, Up the Junction, MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1963

Fabian, Jenny and Johnny Byrne, Groupie, New English Library, London, 1969

Ironside, Virginia, Chelsea Bird, Secker & Warburg, London, 1964

Lucie-Smith, Edward, ed., The Liverpool Scene, Donald Carroll, London, 1967

Reid Banks, Lynne, The L-Shaped Room, Chatto & Windus, London, 1960

Woodcraft, Elizabeth, The Saturday Girls, Bonnier Zaffre, London, 2018

Journals, Scholarly Articles, Theses and Archives

Atkinson, A. B., ‘The Distribution of Wealth and the Individual Lifecycle’, Oxford Economic Papers (n.s.) 23(2), 1971

Atkinson, Anthony B., James P. F. Gordon and Ian A. Harrison, ‘Trends in the Shares of Top Wealth-Holders in Britain, 1923–1981’, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 51(3), 1989

Jones, Jennifer and Josephine Castle, ‘Women in UK Universities, 1920–1980’, Studies in Higher Education 11(3), 1986

Millennium Memory Bank Oral History Collection held at the British Library

Mills, Helena, ‘Using the Personal to Critique the Popular: Women’s Memories of 1960s Youth’, Contemporary British History 30(4), 2016

Parliamentary Committee on Higher Education, The Robbins Report, October 1963 (appointed by the prime minister under the chairmanship of Lord Robbins, 1961–3)

Walton, John K., ‘From Institution to Fragmentation: The Making and Unmaking of the British Weekend’, Leisure Studies 33(2), 2014

Newspapers, Magazines, Journals

Birmingham Evening Mail

Daily Express

Daily Mail

Daily Sketch

Daily Telegraph

Evening Standard

Guardian

Honey

Manchester Evening News

News of the World

Nova

Sunday Telegraph

Sunday Times

The Times

Woman’s Own

Woman’s Weekly

Useful Websites

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online at www.oxforddnb.com

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