Don’t Look Back in Anger: The Rise & Fall of Cool Britannia by Daniel Rachel

The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the ‘Swinging Sixties’ had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into a blooming of national self-confidence. It was the decade of Lad Culture and Girl Power; of Blur vs Oasis. When fashion runways shone with British talent, Young British Artists became household names, football was ‘coming home’ and British film went worldwide. From Old Labour’s defeat in 1992 through to New Labour’s historic landslide in 1997, Don’t Look Back In Anger chronicles the Cool Britannia age when the country united through a resurgence of patriotism and a celebration of all things British.

Contributors

1. Lorenzo Agius – photographer
2. Damon Albarn – Blur
3. Keith Allen – actor
4. Waheed Alli – Planet 24 / Labour Lord
5. Suzi Aplin – TFI producer
6. Brett Anderson – Suede
7. Matthew Bannister – Radio 1
8. David Baddiel – Comedian
9. Alan Barnard – Labour
10. Aimee Bell – Vanity Fair
11. Tony Blair – Leader of the Labour Party
12. Rik Blaxill – Top of the Pops
13. Virginia Bottomley – National Heritage
14. Alastair Campbell – Labour
15. Fiona Cartledge – Sign of the Times
16. Gurinder Chadha – filmmaker
17. Melanie Chisolm – Spice Girls
18. Jarvis Cocker – Pulp
19. Steve Coogan – comedian
20. Sadie Coles – curator
21. Mat Collishaw – artist
22. Michael Craig-Martin – artist/ Goldsmiths
23. Fran Cutler – party organiser
24. Jeremy Deller – artist
25. Steve Double – Football Association
26. Alan Edwards – Outside Organisation
27. Tracey Emin – artist
28. Simon Fowler – Ocean Colour Scene
29. Matthew Freud – Freud’s
30. Noel Gallagher – Oasis
31. Sheryl Garratt – The Face
32. Katie Grand – Dazed & Confused
33. Johnny Hopkins – Oasis PR
34. Nick Hornby – author
35. Peter Hyman – New Labour
36. Karen Johnson – Blur PR
37. David Kamp – Vanity Fair
38. Darren Kalynuk – Labour
39. Steve Lamacq – Radio 1
40. Mark Leonard – DEMOS
41. Jo Levin – GQ
42. Sarah Lucas – YBA
43. Will Macdonald – TFI
44. Margaret McDonagh – Baroness, Labour
45. Alan McGee – Creation Records
46. Stryker McGuire – Newsweek
47. Sonya Madan – Echobelly
48. John Major – leader of Conservative Party
49. Gregor Muir – art curator
50. Geoff Mulgan – Demos
51. John Newbigin – Special Advisor Labour
52. Carolyn Payne – The Girlie Show
53. Oliver Peyton – Atlantic Bar
54. Charlie Parsons – Planet 24
55. Carla Power – Newsweek
56. Polly Ravenscroft – Radio 1
57. Norman Rosenthal – Exhibitions Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts
58. Phill Savidge – music PR
59. Tjinder Singh – Cornershop
60. Jo Skinny – influencer
61. Pat Skinny – influencer
62. Chris Smith – DCMS
63. Tim Southwell – loaded
64. Meera Syal – author
65. Irvine Welsh – author
66. Jo Whiley – Radio 1
67. Matthew Wright – The Mirror
68. Toby Young – Modern Review / Vanity Fair