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Title
When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
Book Title
When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
ISBN
057122136X
EAN
9780571221363
Binding
Hardback
Date of Publication
2009-05-07
Release Title
When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
Artist
Beckett, Andy
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N/A
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Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
Item Height
241 mm
Author
Andy Beckett
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Subject
History
Item Weight
899 g
Item Width
160 mm
Number of Pages
592 Pages

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The seventies are probably the most important and fascinating period in modern British political history. They encompass strikes that brought down governments, shock general election results, the rise of Margaret Thatcher and the fall of Edward Heath, the IMF crisis, the Winter of Discontent and the three-day week. But the seventies have also been frequently misunderstood, oversimplified and misrepresented. When the Lights Went Out goes in search of what really happened, what it felt like at the time, and where it was all leading. It includes vivid interviews with many of the leading participants, many of them now dead, from Heath to Jack Jones to Arthur Scargill, and it travels from the once-famous factories where the great industrial confrontations took place to the suburbs where Thatcherism was created and to remote North Sea oil rigs. The book also unearths the stories of the forgotten political actors away from Westminster who gave the decade so much of its volatility and excitement, from the Gay Liberation Front to the hippie anarchists of the free festival movement. Over five years in the making, this book is not an academic history but something for the general reader, written with the vividness of a novel or the best works of American New Journalism, bringing the decade back to life in all its drama and complexity.

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Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571221363
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
Publication Year
2009
Subject
History
Type
Textbook
Author
Andy Beckett
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
241 mm
Item Weight
899 g
Item Width
160 mm

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United Kingdom
Title_Author
Andy Beckett

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