From mini skirts to mods and rockers, civil rights to women’s lib, the 1960s was a time of social change, hedonism and counter-cultural movements, where vision, creativity and innovation spread from ...

's chief detective in early-1960s England, has been called graceful, gripping and flawless in its re-creation of that onetime Cold War milieu. scandal in its central plot involving sexual threesomes, ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A new show at Britain's National Portrait Gallery in London captures swinging 1960s Britain in photographs from bopping to the Beatles at the Cavern to the psychedelic ...

The 1960s are remembered for counterculture, civil rights, and cultural revolution, but the decade also produced some of the most notorious criminals in modern history. Their stories reveal a darker ...

Summer 1960, and Britain was finally seeing the green shoots of affluence after years of austerity. Fashion and pop music were in, teenagers were desperate for heroes - the time was right for four ...

Nick Hedges: ‘The tenants and residents of these dreadful housing conditions were literally trapped. They’d explored every avenue and still couldn’t escape’ ​Nick Hedges, the ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The term folk rock has been absent from the vocabulary of the hip and cool for several decades. However, Fairport Convention, the band that hewed the form from the ...

This scholarly journal (free to members) is published about once a year. Each issue of around 160 pages tackles a general topic (such as housing or conservation) in depth, with specially commissioned ...

The world was changing in the 1960s, and so was the face of movie stardom. But who among the decade’s most popular movie stars are actually the greatest of all time? While the 1960s are defined by ...