Advantages: Thorough, very readable, well-researched account of the decade Disadvantages: Not a light read - definitely one for the history enthusiast
When the seventies began, I was a teenager preparing for my O-levels. Halfway through the decade, I went to college for two years, as I was starting to become politically aware. By the end of the era I was comfortably settled in my third full-time job. Having grown up during the era and followed the major news stories in the papers as they happened, I was fascinated to find everything (well, nearly everything) in the 500-page narrative that comprises ... ...the election of Edward Heath in June 1970 through the three-day week, record British inflation and the IMF rescue, industrial disputes and picket battles at Saltley and Grunwick, the Gay Liberation Front and the stirrings of the green movement, the rise of Arthur Scargill, and the discovery of North Sea oil. Then there was the survival of James Callaghan’s minority administration despite the odds, and thanks largely to his adroit handling of the ...
JOHNV 13.10.2009
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