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The Eighties may seem to many of us like yesterday, but in many ways the Britain of thirty years ago was a thoroughly foreign country. During the years when Thatcherism wiped out almost a quarter of Britain’s heavy industry through savagely monetarist policies, a naval Task Force also sailed to re-take an insular outpost in the South Atlantic. In the same decade as the extraordinary pitched battles of the miners’ strike, Boy George sweetly crooned “Karma Chameleon”. As the world faced the early days of panic over the AIDS virus, pop stars took to the stage for Live Aid.

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'A masterly mix of shrewd analysis, historical detail and telling quotes... Indispensable' Mail on Sunday 'Among a host of recent books on the 1980s, Turner's stands out as comfortably the most entertaining' Sunday Times When Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in 1979 she promised to bring harmony where once there had been discord. But Britain entered the 1980s bitterly divided over its future. At stake were the souls of the great population boom of the 1960s. Would they buy into the free-market, patriotic agenda of Thatcherism? Or the anti-racist, anti-sexist liberalism of the new left? From the miners' strike, the Falklands War and the spectre of AIDS, to Yes Minister, championship snooker and Boy George, Rejoice! Rejoice! steps back in time to relive the decade when the Iron Lady sought to remake Britain. What it discovers is a thoroughly foreign country.

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PublisherAurum Press

ISBN-139781781310724

eBay Product ID (ePID)176269802

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SubjectHistory

Publication Year2013

Number of Pages432 Pages

Publication NameRejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s

LanguageEnglish

TypeTextbook

AuthorAlwyn W. Turner

FormatPaperback

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Item Height197 mm

Item Width129 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Title_AuthorAlwyn W. Turner

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by pet5674.s1hddy
22 Oct, 2022
Decent book.
Very well written and well researched. Too much politics for me at the start though. Get through that and it improves significantly
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