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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Aaron Curran

Life in the decade Beatlemania took over the world

Life in the mid 20th century UK was almost unrecognisable to today.

Following World War Two, many of the cities across the UK had been flattened by bombings and much of the early 1950s was spent rebuilding from the ashes of the war. This led to an inherently more conservative British society, still scarred by the memories of the Blitz and the horrors on the continent,

All of this began to changed as the swinging sixties rolled in. The teenagers of this time were the first to be free of conscription, and the first truly free generation of young people.

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