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Author Beckett, Andy, 1969-

Title When the lights went out : Britain in the seventies / Andy Beckett.

Publication Info. London : Faber, 2009.

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 Moore Stacks  DA589.4 .B43 2009    Available  ---
Description x, 576 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-553) and index.
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. William the terrible. Brent vs. the Cotswolds ; Getting away with it? ; Pressures building ; The peasants' revolt ; Last-ditch days ; Conclusion : the long Seventies.
Subject Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1964-1979.
Great Britain.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1964-1979
Subject Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952-2022.
Nineteen seventies.
Nineteen seventies.
ISBN 9780571221363 hardback
057122136X hardback