In the sixties, when sixty acres below Canal Street were slated for clearing, Danny Lyon documented disappearing traces of life dating back to before the Civil War.
John Myers’s images of middle England, taken in the nineteen-seventies, provide a gloss on Britain’s current crisis of national identity, exposed by the pro-Brexit vote of 2016.
Earrings, usually forbidden, can be seen glittering from beneath white bonnets. Swimming is allowed; volleyball and shuffleboard are encouraged; ice-cream cones are a nightly ritual.