The following notes give only principal sources consulted, and are aimed at the general reader rather than the scholar. For all publication details, please refer to the Select Bibliography.
Where reference is made to monetary values I have often referred to what sums in the past would be worth today. These calculations were made at www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/index.html
Statistical references are uncredited throughout. Principal statistical sources consulted are as follows (for publication details, see Select Bibliography):
Booker, Christopher, The Neophiliacs
Dyhouse, Carol, Students: A Gendered History
Gavron, Hannah, The Captive Wife
Gorer, Geoffrey, Sex and Marriage in England Today
Green, Jonathon, All Dressed Up
Halsey, A. H., Trends in British Society Since 1900
Hewison, Robert, Too Much
Kynaston, David, Modernity Britain: 1957–1962
Laurie, Peter, The Teenage Revolution
Lewis, Jane, Women in Britain Since 1945
Marsden, Dennis, Mothers Alone
Marwick, Arthur, The Sixties
Roberts, Elizabeth, Women and Families
Robinson, Jane, In the Family Way
Sampson, Anthony, The New Anatomy of Britain
Sandbrook, Dominic, Never Had It So Good
Sandbrook, Dominic, White Heat
Schofield, Michael, The Sexual Behaviour of Young People
Certain sources recur throughout this book. For the sake of brevity, they are abbreviated as follows:
ABD/A – Amanda Brooke-Dales, author interview
AC/A – Anne Chisholm, author interview
AL/KS – Ann Leslie, Killing My Own Snakes
AM/A – Anthea Millican, author interview
AP/CT – Alison Pressley, Changing Times
BM/A – Beryl Marsden, author interview
CH/A – Caroline Harper, author interview
CK/TL – Christine Keeler, The Truth at Last
CL/TL – Cynthia Lennon, A Twist of Lennon
DM/A – Doreen Massey, author interview
FB/AB – Floella Benjamin, The Arms of Britannia
FB/CE – Floella Benjamin, Coming to England
GC/G – Grace Coddington, Grace: A Memoir
JB/CB – Joan Bakewell, The Centre of the Bed
JD/S – Jenny Diski, The Sixties
JG/DL – Jonathon Green, Days in the Life
KE/GE – Kathy Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes
KR/A – Kristina Reid, author interview
KS/A – Kimberley Saunders, author interview
LB/E – Lynn Barber, An Education
MC/A – Mavis Cheek (née Wilson), author interview
MD/A – Mary Denness, author interview
MF/F – Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull
MH/A – Margaret Hogg, author interview
MI/NT – Mary Ingham, Now We are Thirty
MN/A – Melissa North, author interview
MRD/M – Mandy Rice-Davies, Mandy
MW/OF – Michelene Wandor, ed., Once a Feminist
P/Cine – Pathé Cinemagazines and newsreels available at www.britishpathe.com
PB/A – Pattie Boyd, author interview
PB/WT – Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Today
PO/A – Pauline O’Mahony, author interview
PQ/A – Patricia Quinn, author interview
RP/A – Rosalyn Palmer, author interview
SJ/A – Sophie Jenkins, author interview
SM/VH – Sara Maitland, ed., Very Heaven
SR/PD – Sheila Rowbotham, Promise of a Dream
TT/A – Theresa Tyrell, author interview
VM/A – Veronica MacNab, author interview
1. ‘It was incredibly dull …’: ‘Susan’, cited in Cécile Landau, Growing Up in the Sixties
2. ‘I’m a sixties woman …’: KS/A
3. ‘Oh my God, yes …’: TT/A
4. ‘Whenever I want you …’: from ‘All I Have to Do is Dream’, the Everly Brothers
5. ‘Girls were seen as insignificant’: MD/A
6. ‘I do seem to fit your brief …’: AM/A
7. ‘So radio was, well …’: BM/A
8. ‘The screaming was so loud …’: CH/A