The Spirit of ’67: Portsmouth’s Summer of Love and its Legacy

We welcome a new, temporary exhibition which opens today at Portsmouth Guildhall and is available until 8th January 2018.

The exhibition, created by Dave Allen and hosted by the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, marks the 50th anniversary of the so-called ‘Summer of Love’ with a focus on Portsmouth in the late 1960s and the legacy of those interesting times.

The familiar histories tell tales of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, swinging London and young people with flowers in their hair and bells round their necks, traveling in their thousands to San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district to join the hippies there. The histories of those times also tell us that after the explosion of colour and new sounds of 1967, the following year’s revolutionary spirit became more political and less peaceful, leading to some terrible events in the immediate aftermath such as Altamont, Manson and Kent State.

Dave Allen’s book, Autumn of Love: How the Swinging Sixties & the Counterculture came to Portsmouth is available from Portsmouth Guildhall and Waterstones.

The Spirit of ’67: Portsmouth’s Summer of Love and its Legacy temporary exhibition is part of an ongoing programme hosted by the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) at the University of Portsmouth in partnership with Portsmouth Cultural Trust, the operators of the Guildhall.

It is FREE to view the exhibition, 10am – 4pm weekdays. Please check weekend opening times with Portsmouth Guildhall Box Office on 023 9387 0200.

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