English life is different from life in the US, but if you mean what was going on in the news, in music, in politics, and socially, the concerns there probably were much like here: England's pop music invaded the US in the early 60s so in a sense we were led by what was going on with England's young people, and thereafter, everything quickly changed from what had been a very conventional social mentality (home, country, religion, apple pie in the US, apple tart in England) to unconventional (do your own thing, let it all hang out, let's smoke pot).
At the time, because we were young, it seemed exciting and 'new' but looking at it all now from the perspective of the past 40+ years, it may have been fun at the time, but our society and England's were deeply affected (and irrevocably changed) in some very negative ways. The moral of the story is "be careful what you wish for."
Monkey into Man - 1938 was released on: UK: 1938 USA: 1940
The Power of Life - 1938 was released on: USA: 28 April 1938
Life for refuges is generally awful
A Road in India - 1938 was released on: UK: 1938 USA: 24 October 1941
Housemaster - 1938 was released on: UK: 31 January 1938 USA: 9 April 1939
Lovers and Luggers - 1938 was released on: UK: 1938 Australia: 3 March 1938 USA: 21 February 1940
My Irish Molly - 1938 was released on: UK: December 1938 USA: 29 September 1940
A Dream of Love - 1938 was released on: UK: January 1938 USA: 28 January 1939
Keep Smiling - 1938 I was released on: UK: December 1938 (London) USA: 19 February 1939
Peter Marshall - UK broadcaster - was born in 1938.
John Browne - UK politician - was born in 1938.
Life in Sometown U-S-A- - 1938 was released on: USA: 26 February 1938