When the lights went out what really happened to Britain in the seventies
The seventies encompass strikes that brought down governments, shock general election results, the rise of Margaret Thatcher and the fall of Edward Heath, the IMF crisis, the Winter of Discontent and the three-day week. This title goes in search of what really happened, what it felt like at the time...
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Faber and Faber Ltd
2010
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a When the lights went out |b what really happened to Britain in the seventies |c Andy Beckett |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a pt. 1. Optimism -- Champagne and rust -- The great white ghost -- Heathograd -- pt. 2. Shocks -- Close the gates! -- Questions of sovereignty -- Lights out -- Waiting for collapse -- pt. 3. New possibilities -- The great black hope -- The real sixties -- Get out of the city -- Margaret and the Austrians -- A relationship of forces -- Marxism at lunchtime -- pt. 4. The reckoning -- William the terrible -- Brent vs. the Cotswolds -- Getting away with it? -- Pressures building -- The peasants' revolt -- Last-ditch days -- Conclusion : the long Seventies. | |
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