I first started thinking about what I knew about the 60's, a list arose in my head and I soon had a long list of memorable moments. Unsure of my own historic knowledge I asked a few of my fellow peers who themselves contended in that great race otherwise know as the 1960's.

The short answer is no, my television childhood had lied to me. The vast majority of my list was even laughed at, how was I supposed to stir up memories of people born 26 years before me. Well the task was ahead of me and there was no turning back.

Lets start things off with one of my passions, cinematography.

I thought most of the movies released in the 60's were about mind expansion and free love, in some ways I was right but in a kind of twisted way.

In the beginning of the 60's we first saw Sean Connery don the mantle of "James Bond" and I didn't think the whole James Bond scenario started till the late 60's early seventies.

After that little British cinema gem America got scared and decided to retaliate with such sub par titles as "The silencers".

In the 1960's we also saw the first "Carry On" movies being made, nowadays these do seem like mind-expanding movies but only to the art student eating a box of cereal on his sofa at midday because Bargain Hunt never had the same glow after David Dickinson left.

As 1960's cinema went on it got a little better (in my mind), musicals such as childhood favourites "Mary Popins" and "Oliver" started turning up. We also saw some of the first really good classics coming out such as "Lawrence of Arabia", "Jason and the Argonauts", "Planet of the Apes" and "The Birds" just to name a few.

I know I wasn't actually alive in the sixties but in my mind these are the movies I know and love, by all means these were probably not the top titles of the sixties but because of their cult following they live on in people such as me who doesn't even know some of the top titles of the 60's.

Next on my list was pop culture and music and I thought this wont take long, I mean how long could it take to summarise the entire pop culture and music for the 1960's.

I always thought hat 60's music was all experimental rock melodies. Oh, how little did I know?!

British music in the beginning of the 1960's was very jazz baby with such artists as Acker Bilk, Chris Barber and Kenny Ball, Acker Bilk also became the first UK act to top the US charts.

British music in the 60's really started it all. By the 1960's American pop music had grown very stale and boring, they had a crude wishy washy version of rock left over from the 50's, for once the American music scene was looking up to Britain with jealous eyes.

As the sixties went on music slowly progressed into a voice due to political upheaval around the globe, songwriters had something to write about, something to fight for. They believed they could make a difference and at that point people realised that a minority could make a difference, everyone had something to say and that musicians were going to be the voice of the people.

In the 1960's Britain was in a cultural upheaval Almost everything about the sixties seems to be an icon. Mods and Rockers spent the Easter holidays throwing deckchairs at each other on the seafront. The mini skirt lead people to think the country was going into anarchy.

The Pill and the miniskirt seemed to promise some kind of utopia, providing the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Internationally, the big issues were Vietnam and civil rights and the 'Space Race'.

But it wasn't all violence. The quiet unflinching dignity of the civil rights marchers in the USA wore down a system that had abused black people for nearly 200 years.

1960s certainly had plenty of heroes to choose from Che Guevara, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Bernadette Devlin, and Yuri Gargarin. Britain had their fair share of icons including pirate DJs John Peel and, Tony Blackburn, Rock stars and world champion footballers.

Sandwiched between the sloppiness of the beat generation, sandals and shapeless sweaters and the floaty self-indulgence of the hippies was the time of the Mods, Pop art, Op art and Psychedelic.

Well, I have learnt a few things after writing this.

First, all the things I thought happened in the sixties didn't all get crammed into the last few years of that somehow legendary decade.

Second, everything I knew about the sixties was all very media influenced, I talked to people on my course and they said my opinion on the sixties was, "like a episode of the wonder years".

And lastly it wasn't all drug induced rants, it was about a generation who realised that they could make a difference just by standing up and being heard even if the government wasn't listening some one was.

Written by Steven Bannon