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Images: War is Not Heathly ® © Another Mother for Peace; Victoria & Albert Museum. gay liberation, from the hippy movement to environmentalism and communality. On the other hand, is personal computing, which evolved in the 1960s, the best or the worst infl uence on our lives? Here the same system that allows us to connect across the globe, regardless of physical location, is also responsible for surveillance culture and the dark web. Likewise, environmental problems that began to be defi ned in the 1960s are still with us, though the emphases have changed, and the planet is in an ever more precarious state. Despite political reaction in the 1980s, the Right has not undone the major changes that passed into legislation during this period, while the Left has failed to conjure anything as visionary or universal. Indeed, with the rise of fundamentalism, democracies face external threats that now question their very right to existence, which may make such differences seem secondary. Despite the many forms of revolution that took place between 1966 and 1970 and their successes, failures and unintended consequences, the resulting change that stays with us, and underpins the way we all live today (at least in the West), is above all a change in outlook – a ‘revolution in the head’. • Extract taken from You Say You Want a Revolution?, ed. by Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh (shop.vam.ac.uk, £35 hardback) which accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the V&A. ■ Above left: Installation at the exhibition, which explores its themes through the innovative use of musicLeft: Lorraine Schneider, War is Not Healthy, 1966VISITOR INFORMATION You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966Ð1970Until February 26, 2017Victoria & Albert Museum Address: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RLwww.vam.ac.ukOpen: Saturday–Thursday, 10am–5.45pm; Friday 10am–10pmAdmission: £17.50/£16.50 seniorsInformation for groups: See the website or call 020 7942 2211 for details of the group tour choicesFacilities: Cafe, shops, cloakroom. Full wheelchair access to galleries, wheelchairs/walking frames available to borrow. There are 12 disabled parking spaces on Exhibition Road44 NADFAS REVIEW / WINTER 2016 www.nadfas.org.ukREVOLUTION