PoliticalCartoons.com Homepage. PoliticalCartoons.com Homepage. The Lost World of 1962 - Dominic Sandbrook. Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain - Episode 3 (Pt 2) Learning Zone Class Clips - Politicians and the constructed image - Media Studies Video. Comment on Learning Zone clip. Sixties Britain. In October 1965, the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, officially opened London's new Post Office Tower.
A gleaming cylinder of metal and glass, the tower could hardly have been a more fitting symbol of the scientific optimism of a self-consciously 'go-ahead' decade. It was a monument not just to the white heat of the technological revolution, but to the sheer self-confidence of a society basking in unprecedented prosperity.