Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: John Hillaby’s ‘lyrical, revealing and candid account’ of his Journey Through Britain – in a country much changed since 1968 when it was published

Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: John Hillaby’s ‘lyrical, revealing and candid account’ of his Journey Through Britain – in a country much changed since 1968 when it was published

Book Review: Journey Through Britain. By John Hillaby Britain was different in the late 1960s. Most chaps wore jackets and women wore hats to church, children would be sent out to play in the street and told to not come back until tea time, there were only two television channels and you could buy a lot of chocolate, sweets and comics with a ten shilling note. In many ways the country was a better place that it is today – but in others it was mu…