The final three books cover the 25 years from the early days of the post-war Attlee government to the counterculture and protests of the early 1970s.[6] During the long narrative, the focus changes frequently from one group to another; new faces appear while established characters are written out, sometimes reappearing after many volumes, sometimes not at all, though news of their doings may reach Jenkins, through one or other of his many acquaintances.