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008			151218s2015 enk g b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781846145155
040			_aNz _beng _cNZWPM _erda _dOCLCO _dYDXCP _dCDX _dOCLCF _dNDD _dIUL _dDLC _dUK-LoPHL
082	0	4	_a941.0858
100	1		_aBeckett, Andy, _d1969- _eauthor. _9108471
245	1	0	_aPromised you a miracle : _bUK80-82 / _cAndy Beckett.
264		1	_a[London] : _bAllen Lane, _c2015.
300			_axxiii, 435 pages
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"In the early eighties, a new world was messily brought into being: a miner's son transformed the rubble-strewn flatness of London's docklands into a new city centre of high rise and high finance; austere post-punk bands abandoned their leftwing politics and grey overcoats for glossy Trans-Atlantic careers; a loose-tongued, PR-savvy young socialist seized London's city hall and a small start-up in West Yorkshire, in the middle of the Falklands War, made a gadget the size of a gold bar that stopped the British task force from being blown apart. Leading us into these years of brittle optimism and upheaval, Andy Beckett asks why Britain changed so rapidly and fundamentally; what it felt like to be part of this convulsive change - or to be left behind; and how people were swept up in it, sometimes without realizing. Yet the effects of this revolution would ripple outwards, across the world - and we are still living with the consequences, happily or otherwise."--provided by publisher.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xPolitics and government _y1979-1997. _916349
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xSocial conditions _y1945- _916447
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xHistory _yElizabeth II, 1952-2022 _913048
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