Former Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner remembers the favourite music of his youth, calling the 60s and 70s “a period of intense cultural creativity broadly equivalent to the Renaissance.”
1960s
How Mad Men brings peace to the culture wars
Cult TV show Mad Men focuses on a highly contentious time in American history: the early 60s, post Happy Days and pre free love. It’s a good antidote for the anti-60s — and its sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll — crew.
Daily Proposition: A crime tale that’s all flash and no Underbelly
The Kangaroo Gangs fleeced London’s major department stores of millions of pounds of jewellery, clothes and even a chimp from Harrod’s zoo in the 60s. Now you can read all about them, writes Michael Kitson.
Very disturbing vintage ads: into the minds of mad men
What do murder, pedophilia, suicide and a baby tiger have in common? They’ve all starred in these amazingly disturbing vintage ads!
Video of the Day: Back to the Future: 1960s take on 1990s tech
Forget the leap of a national broadband network. Take a look 1990s telecommunications — as envisaged by 1960s Britain. Nice forward fashion too!
Gerard Henderson: If I’m a liar, where’s the evidence?
According to Robert Manne in yesterday’s Crikey, I am a liar in a category of my own. This is a serious, professionally damaging allegation – but Professor Manne has not supported it with any evidence, writes Gerard Henderson.
