Simon Schama, Financial Times
Historians can be a smug lot.
They will never tire of telling you that decade-upsumming is just a
retro-convenience; that any generalisations about its defining
characteristics can be instantly undone by equally valid
counter-generalisations. The 1950s? Tory complacency but also angry
young men. The 1960s? Harold SuperMac and Harold GannexMac; mini and
maxi; Quant and Biba. But the habit of imprinting a shape on the memory
of a decade goes back in British historical writing at least to
chronicles of the “Hungry Forties” of the 19th century: the years of
Irish famine and Chartist riots. Bad
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