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Were the wild Sixties really wild?

23 September 2024

2:57 PM

23 September 2024

2:57 PM

I grew up in the America of the 1960s, an era renowned for its kaftan-wearing hippies, its ethos of free love and hallucinogens, and demos against the Vietnam War. This was something that caught the imagination of my two London-born, English sons, once they were old enough to have acquired some knowledge of recent social history.

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