Albion Dreaming: How LSD Shaped British Society and Culture from the 1950s to the Present

Andy Roberts's Albion Dreaming traces how LSD influenced British society and culture from its introduction in the early 1950s. The book examines competing responses to the drug: doctors viewed LSD as a possible treatment for mental disorders, intelligence and defense agencies explored its potential for interrogation and warfare, countercultures associated it with spiritual experience and sensory expansion, and governments condemned it. The revised 2025 edition builds on the original 2008 publication with years of additional research and several appendices. Roberts, who became involved with psychedelics in 1972, places LSD within Britain's broader psychedelic history and cultural development.