It was the greatest generational shift the world had seen. Post-war babies who grew into young people not content to just accept the way things were - picking a fight against the 'isms': racism, sexism, militarism, consumerism..
But they didn't realise how much they'd been shaped by the traumatised parents who raised them. Robin Woodsford has examined this in his book, 'Me and my generation: Why Boomers should claim the past and fight for the future'.
He was an activist himself, working for the Young Christian Workers movement in the 70s, before going on to become a youth worker, counsellor and therapist. His book is part memoir, part exploration of what the Baby Boomer generation stood for - and where it ran out of mojo.
He makes the argument that the job's not done, and fellow Boomers should be thinking hard about how to make their legacy count.
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