Promised you a miracle : UK80-82 /
by Beckett, Andy.
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BookPublisher: UK : Allen Lane, 2015Description: xxiii, 435 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781846145155 (hbk.) :; 1846145155 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 941.0858 BECSubject(s): Nineteen eighties | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997 | Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952- | History | HistorySummary: In the cold, dark summer of 1981, crowds gathering in Britain's streets could mean a royal wedding - or a riot. Margaret Thatcher's government, taking power on a promise of renewal, seemed in catastrophic decline. Britain remained troubled, inward-looking, run down by recession, transfixed by the threat of nuclear war. Yet, within this bleak landscape, something was stirring. 'Promised You A Miracle' is the extraordinary untold story of Britain's revolution in the head: a shift in mass consciousness in which an old, self-doubting nation was transformed into something else: outward-looking, materialistic, colourful, lonely and cruel.
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| 941.085 WHA Diana : remembering the Princess : reflections on her life twenty-five years on / | 941.085 WIN The salt path | 941.0857 BEC When the lights went out: Britain in the seventies | 941.0858 BEC Promised you a miracle : UK80-82 / | 941.086 LET Patronising bastards : how the elites betrayed Britain / | 941.086 LEW Finding Hildasay : how one man walked the UK's coastline and found hope and happiness / | 941.086 OBR How they broke Britain / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the cold, dark summer of 1981, crowds gathering in Britain's streets could mean a royal wedding - or a riot. Margaret Thatcher's government, taking power on a promise of renewal, seemed in catastrophic decline. Britain remained troubled, inward-looking, run down by recession, transfixed by the threat of nuclear war. Yet, within this bleak landscape, something was stirring. 'Promised You A Miracle' is the extraordinary untold story of Britain's revolution in the head: a shift in mass consciousness in which an old, self-doubting nation was transformed into something else: outward-looking, materialistic, colourful, lonely and cruel.
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