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17 January 2016

The danger of nostalgia: looking back at 1956

Violence and prejudice is rife in two studies of the pivotal year of 1956.

By Andrew Marr

(Photo By ULLSTEIN BILD VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Thus William Connor, the hugely popular Cassandra of the Daily Mirror, welcoming Liberace to Britain in 1956.

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