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32 Marwick, The Sixties, pp. 145–6, 265, 357, 679–724; B. Osgerby, Youth in
Britain since 1945, Oxford, Blackwell, 1998, pp. 82–103.
33 T. Ali, 1968 and After: Inside the Revolution, London, Blond and Briggs, 1978;
Marwick, The Sixties, p. 4.
34 On historians and postmodernity, see K. Jenkins (ed.), The Postmodern History
Reader, London, Routledge, 1997, esp. pp. 3–5.
35 Jean-Francois Lyotard, ‘The postmodern condition’, ibid., p. 37.
36 A. McRobbie, ‘Jackie: An Ideology of Adolescent Femininity’, Centre for
Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, Occasional Paper
no. 53, April 1978, pp. 1, 3, 14, 17–19, 25.
37 White, Women’s Periodical Press, p. 27.
38 Ibid., p. 15.
39 Ibid., pp. 56–8.
40 It is impressive what a high proportion of television and radio comedy material
in the sixties was aimed at the military.
41 ‘In the electric age man seems to the conventional West to become irrational.’
M. McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, orig. 1964, Cambridge,
Mass., MIT Press, 1994, p. 15.
42 This analysis involved classifying the lyrics of 167 Beatles songs into romance/
non-romance, using the lyrics of the songs (excluding instrumental pieces) by
Lennon–McCartney and Harrison in The Beatles Complete (London, Wise
Publications, n.d.). The classification focused on the ‘obvious’ theme or signification
of the lyrics to a non-expert in the ‘real’ or ‘hidden’ meanings of the lyric
writer. I was much assisted in this by consulting Macdonald, Revolution in the
Head.
43 The Beatles Complete p. 178. ‘She’s Leaving Home’. Words and music by John
Lennon and Paul McCartney © 1967 Northern Songs. Used by permission
of Music Sales Ltd. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
44 Ray Davies speaking on the compact disc, Ray Davies: The Storyteller, 1998,
Guardian Records, EMI Records Ltd., end of track 13.
45 A. Myrdal and V. Klein, Women’s Two Roles: Home and Work, London, RKP,
1956, p. 26.
46 A clash evocatively recounted in J. Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit,
London, Pandora, 1985.
47 Reports to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1970, pp. 399–410.
After 1972, the Committee confined itself largely to alcoholism, gambling and
domestic violence.
48 QA, FAM, interviewee QD3/100/FAM/23.
49 QA, FAM, interviewee QD3/100/FAM/24.
50 QA, FAM, interviewee QD3/100/FAM/25.
51 In order, the testimony of QA, FAM, interviewees QD3/100/FAM/115
(b. 1922), /74 (b. 1945) and /75 (b. 1969).
52 A good example is QA, FLWE interviewee 99, pp. 13–50, who stopped going
to church at the age of thirteen in the 1910s.
53 QA, FLWE interviewee 65, p. 15.
54 SOHCA, respondents 006/Mrs G.3 (b. 1925) and Mrs I.2 (b. 1907).
55 SOHCA, respondent 006/Mrs C.2 (b. 1912), pp. 22–3.
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