I think many of us had that experience growing up in Britain after the second world war. News of this echoed around my school world, because not only did everyone hit us, but we hit everyone, too. At the time, people blamed social change on the summer of love that had now reached as far as Birmingham. The first world war changed all that. When the first world war ended, my grandfathers returned home to their families, and were expected to carry on as before.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2017 06:22 UTC