In 1962 suitably modern, scientific British businesses, such as Dunlop and Ferranti, were represented at the table alongside trade union leaders and Whitehall mandarins at the first meeting of the National Economic Development Council, ...
... gay men were for a time ahead of the rest of the population. Coping with AIDS was one of the most effective public information and healthcare stories of modern times. The turn came in 1986 when Norman Fowler, the health secretary, ...
It was evidentalready, as a master of nineteenth-century British history noted, that “neither the institutions, nor the ideas, that had been inherited from the eighteenth ... A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900, 2010.
A History of Modern Britain: 1815 to 1979
Marr tells the story of how the great political visions came to be defeated by consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification - and, every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than before.
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" Several sections are updated in this second edition, and its companion sources and documents volume remains indispensable." —Susan Dabney Pennybacker, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Praise for the previous edition "Ellis ...