Promised you a miracle : UK80-82
Beckett, Andy, 1969-2015
Book
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.
Main title:
Promised you a miracle : UK80-82 / Andy Beckett.
Author:
Beckett, Andy, 1969-, author
Imprint:
UK : Allen Lane, 2015.
Collation:
xxiii, 435 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781846145155 (hbk)9780141972558 (ebook)
Dewey class:
941'.0858
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
236019