TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beckett,Andy
TI  - Promised you a miracle: UK80-82 
SN  - 9781846145155 (hbk.) :
AV  - DA589.7 
U1  - 941.0858 BEC 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - UK
PB  - Allen Lane
KW  - Nineteen eighties
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1979-1997
KW  - History
KW  - Elizabeth II, 1952-
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -