The 1960s

The dawn of a new decade as the world stood on the brink of seismic cultural and political change.

The space race ignited and a wall divided Berlin as Cold War tensions reached fever pitch.

The world held its breath during thirteen days in October as nuclear war seemed terrifyingly possible.

A president was assassinated in Dallas and Beatlemania swept Britain as innocence gave way to upheaval.

The British Invasion conquered America as the Beatles arrived at JFK and Beatlemania went global.

Swinging London was the centre of the world as miniskirts, pop art, and youthful rebellion redefined the culture.

England won the World Cup, the counterculture accelerated, and the cultural revolution shook China.

The Summer of Love bloomed as flower power, psychedelia, and Sgt. Pepper's changed everything.

A year of assassinations, revolution, and upheaval as the post-war order cracked from Prague to Paris to Chicago.

One giant leap for mankind as humans walked on the Moon and half a million gathered at Woodstock.