Millburn Seminar: Professor Ben Highmore, ‘Hardboiled Spies and Soft Cooked Eggs: Tastemakers and Taste Making in Britain in the 1960s and 70s’

Date: 31/10/2018

Time: 5.15pm (followed by drinks reception)

Venue: A0.28 (Millbun House)

All welcome.

About: This talk will look at changes in taste in Britain in the 1960s and 70s and ask questions about how we attend to taste and to changes in taste. What significance should we give to the mundane world of furniture and cooking, of bedding and cafés? How do we judge the weight of things; assess their cultural gravity? 1962 saw the Sunday Timeslaunch its ‘colour section’ – an event which is often seen as a significant moment in the production of lifestyle culture – and Len Deighton publish his novel The Ipcress File – with its cold war paranoia and class-war wisecracks. What happens when we allow such objects to percolate together?