Angel Delight is and always will be a gourmet dessert !

Sandbrook here at the age of 35, dresses like it’s 1974, I love the cuddly bear.

The 1970s were a time of crisis,national emergencies,blackouts and petrol shortages,but also had the best cinema,best music,best TV,best sport,the best looking women and the most flamboyant fashions! None of the dreary,somnolent uniformity of today!It was a wonderful.giddy,infuriatingly contradictory but uniquely exciting  and turbulent decade and despite everything I wouldn't have a changed a thing!

Thanks. I can highly recommend Sandbrook's books, 'State Of Emergency' which covers the Heath years being his best yet.

Yeah, It was relaxing and fun to listen such times ...

Thanks! That was very interesting.

This sparked a  memory  .. think it was  73  or  4   .. wevlived in a tythe   cottage  and we got indoor  plumbing  , a  bedroom was halved  and we had an indoor  toilet  ,a bath and sink .. all to a soakaway  ..  we got  posh that  day

I think this is very good. His aim to to revisit opinions on history, and he does that. The popular idea of "60's good, 70's bad" is reviewed by looking at absolute improvements in living standards.
The idea that the entire '60's population was living in a flat off the Kings Road and having sex in between concerts is a myth (broadcast repeatedly by prominent media voices who were).
1960's population had a hard economic fight. Their emotional reference point was the previous decade so anything was better than that decade where rationing and war damage still existed.
But still the technology of the 1970's improved living standards for "most" people.          

I left England for Canada in 1974. 'Nuff said.

There was a series called the Family set in Reading in 1974-It was a very early fly on the wall doc about an ordinary low budget family and there was a wedding in it,  around about the same time. It was held up as an alternative to Ann /Mark Phillips overblown affair and celebrated for its ordinariness. . I think there was a lot of under reported dissent about the Royal Family and the expense of it. I was 12 at the time and remember the hype, from the redtops, but there was no real patriotic swell, though.

In the U.S., I  was age 10 in 1974...I  recall the gasoline or petrol crisis of '73, when the entire West suffered the consequences of U.S. foreign policy.  I do not however, recall such thing as rolling electric blackouts..blackouts in my area of the U.S. only occurred due to severe weather (blizzards, tornadoes, severe thunderstorms)...never because of strikes. I am sure the U.K. was much more accepting of strikes than in the U.S.   I recall strikes when I was young in the 70s and 80s...but it was usually auto workers who earned more per hour than people with master's degrees..so there was not much sympathy..especially when strikes caused companies to fail. And in the U.S., it was other workers who did not show sympathy. When I was young, I always believed if someone is striking, that is their right, but it is also a right of someone to work in their place if they so choose...a 'scab'. My father was working class until he owned his own business. I have much more formal education than my father...but he had much more control of his own life and that of his family back in the day.

The conversation about growth.... just as relevant today in 2025!

1970s....No looming existential threat of AI. No internet. No social media. No mobile phones. I knew everyone where I lived. No traffic. Proper seasons. Out with your friends where your parents knew you were safe. Simple material possessions. People were content with what they had.
Now everybody has everything and nobody is happy.

Loved the 70s it was hard and grim but wish I could go bk to them

I spent my first nine years during that decade and am four years older than Sandbrook.  Too young to remember the first part of it (Princess Anne married when I was just three and Play School age).  Difficult to imagine life back then as an adult - when you are a small child at the time!

Sandbrook puts the postmodern world, which I feel almost began in 1974, into context here. Wasn't Thatcher made Tory leader in 74?

You talk like you remember it well. You cannot be old enough.

Now I want some Fish Fingers.

Roger Moore could wear a black bin liner and still look good!

The Maxi dresses are back! Someone get in touch with her and tell her they are back!