1. Dominic Sandbrook, Never Had It So Good: Britain in the Fifties (London, 2005);
2. Peter Hennessy, Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties (London, 2006);
3. Bill Osgerby, Youth in Britain since 1945 (Oxford, 1998).
4. Catherine Ellis, ‘No hammock for the idle: the Conservative Party, “Youth” and the welfare state in the 1960s’, Twentieth Century British History 16:4 (2005), pp.441–470.
5. I. Jennings, Party Politics Vol. I: Appeal to the People (Cambridge, 1960) pp.179, 212 reports the higher figure. Catherine Ellis, ‘The Younger Generation: The Labour Party and the 1959 Youth Commission’, Journal of British Studies 41:2(2002).