Book description
Nigel Yates brings together the religious and social dimensions of
the 1950s and 60s and examines the enormous changes in moral attitudes
that took place in these two decades. Much of the popular literature
on post-war Britain tends to present the 1950s as a period of
continuing repression and respectability in the area of private and
public morality, and the 1960s as one in which there was rapid social
change. Using a wide range of contemporary sources -- books (including
novels), magazines, newspapers, advertising, fashion catalogues, films
and television, as well as a number of significant archive collections
-- Nigel Yates argues that changes in attitudes to religion and
morality in the 1960s were only made possible by developments in the 1950s.
Nigel Yates (1944-2009) was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at
the University of Wales, Lampeter, and is widely regarded as one of the
world's leading historians of religion in modern Britain and Europe. His
recent publications include Eighteenth Century Britain: Religion and
Politics 1714-1815 (Pearson 2007).
