These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

It’s nice to watch television but it’s even nicer when you’ve got a drink in your hand,’ Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. ‘Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that...

I’m drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons – everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn’t happen every decade. 1983 isn’t that much different from 1986. But 1953 is very different from...

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

I fancy you, Kitty Dawson,” a lone boy shouted.

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother’s generation.