Looking back on the Swinging Sixties

What comes to mind when we think about the ‘Swinging Sixties’? Is it miniskirts and pop music, street protest, or the Pill? Do we remember rebellious youth and ‘the generation gap’, or think nostalgically of a time of full employment, buoyant wages, and high rates of home ownership? In truth the sixties was about all of these things. Join Margaret Anderson as she explores life in the 1960s and asks did Victoria really ‘swing’ in the 1960s?

Margaret Anderson is the historian director of the Old Treasury Building.

Presented as part of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ exhibition from Old Treasury Building.