| Description/Quantity |
546 pages [12] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibiliographical references and an index. |
| Contents |
1.Jim'll Fix It -- Waiting at the Church -- Floating or Sinking? -- Crisis? What Crisis? -- The Ayes to the Right -- 2.Hello Maggie! -- Marketing Maggie -- Five Weeks that Shaped a Decade? -- A Woman in Power -- 3.The Centre Cannot Hold -- The Joy of Monetarism -- The Pain of Monetarism -- Ẁets' and 'Dries' -- Trouble for Tina -- 4.Ghost Town -- Breadline Britain -- Long Hot Summer -- The Brixton and Toxteth Riots -- The Hunger Strikes -- 5.The Alternative -- The Democracy of the Committed -- Gang of Four -- Bright Dawn over Limehouse -- The Donkey-Jacket Tendency -- Breaking the Mould? -- 6.The Empire Strikes Back -- The Last Good-Old-Fashioned War? -- White Flags over Whitehall -- Towards the Abyss -- Sink the Belgrano! -- White Flags over Stanley -- 7.Resurrection -- The Resolute Approach -- Recovery -- The North Sea Oil Bonanza ... and Where It Went -- 8.Two Tribes -- Protest and Survive -- Protect and Survive -- Cold Thaw -- |
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Contents note continued: 9.Culture Shock -- Paying the Piper -- Next Programme Follows Shortly -- You Have Been Watching -- The British Are Coming ... and Going -- 10.Style Over Substance? -- After Modernism -- Po-Mo -- The Spirit of the Age -- 11.Electric Baroque -- Are 'Friends' Electric? -- Ridicule Is Nothing to Be Scared of -- Money for Nothing -- The Rise and Fall of the Indies -- Welcome to the Acid House -- Madchester -- 12.Moral Panic -- No Such Thing as Society -- Law and Disorder -- Don't Die of Ignorance -- Faith, Hope and Charity -- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity? -- 13.The Workers, United, Will Never Be Defeated -- Which Side Are You On? -- The Miners' Strike -- The End of the Street -- Revolution at Wapping -- On the Waterfront -- United They Stand? -- 14.Creative Destruction -- Rolling Back the State -- A Tale of Two Cities -- The Predators' Ball -- Greed Is Good -- Loaded, Landed, Leveraged -- 15.An End To Old Certainties -- Ten More Years! Ten More Years! -- |
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Contents note continued: Whitehall versus Town Hall -- The Diet of Brussels -- Scrapping the Iron Lady -- 16.Legacy. |
| Summary |
Britain in the 1980s was a polarized nation. With the two main political parties as far apart as at any time since the 1930s, the period was riven by violent confrontation, beginning with the explosion of rioting that rocked England's cities in 1981 and again in 1985; a year-long fight with the National Union of Mineworkers, and then with print workers in Wapping. There was the war to retake the Falkland Islands and the re-escalation of the troubles in Northern Ireland, which began with hunger strikes and peaked with the attempt to assassinate the entire Cabinet in the Brighton bombing. It was also a decade of political innovation - in the life and death of the Social Democratic Party, the mass privatization of state-owned industries, the sale of council houses and the deregulation of financial markets - and cultural ferment, with the rise and fall of indie pop, the emergence of house music, Channel 4 and the growth of alternative comedy; and Prince Charles's interventions on architecture. Graham Stewart's magnificent and comprehensive history of the eighties covers all these events, and many more, with exhilarating verve and detail, and also examines the legacy of a decade that sowed the seeds of modern Britain.. |
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Nineteen eighties.
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Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952-2022.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1945-
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| Alt Title |
History of Britain in the 1980s. |
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History of Britain in the nineteen eighties. |
| ISBN |
9781848871458 |
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1848871457 |
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9781848871465 |
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1848871465 |
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