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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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Main Author: Beckett, Andy 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Faber and Faber Ltd 2010
Subjects:
Political science
Nineteen seventies
Great Britain > History > Elizabeth II, 1952-
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1964-1979
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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