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Waterloo Sunrise

by John Davis

(Princeton University Press, 600 pages, £30)

London calling

During the 1960s and 70s, Britain’s capital was transformed, being mythologised in the mid-sixties as a “swinging” city, with its West End shows and Chelsea pot parties. But as the seventies drew to a close, London was in the grip