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Mods & Rockers: Fifty Years On

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Mods and rockers, 1964
Mods and rockers, 1964Photography by David McEnery
In 1964, on the beaches of Brighton and Margate, amidst a sea of leather jackets, parkas, long hair and white socks, one of Britain’s most violent and memorable subculture clashes broke out. The fight was between Mods and Rockers, and resulted in a series of riots that would go down in history, representing the power of youth and the strength of clothing as a collectivist tool. Newspapers compared the violence to a fo...

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