Ebook: Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

The 1970s. Strikes, power-cuts, the three-day week, inflation, the National Front and the dead left unburied. Or, from another perspective, a period dominated by Morecambe & Wise, glam rock, detective fiction, club football, Get Carter, The Sweeney and The Good Life. It was the best of times and the worst of times. Wealth inequality was at a record low, but industrial disruption was reached a record high. These were the glory years of Doctor Who and Coronation Street, but the darkest days of the Northern Ireland conflict. In 1978 London Weekend Television launched a new series, The South.;Cover; Title page; Epigraph; Contents; Intro: SEVENTIES: 'This is the modern world'; Part One: Hang On To Yourself: 1970-1974; 1 THE HEATH YEARS: 'The party on the left is now the party on the right'; 2 RIVALS: 'This town ain't big enough for both of us'; 3 ENVIRONMENT: 'All I need is the air that I breathe'; 4 VIOLENCE: 'It's the only thing that'll make you see sense'; 5 UNIONS: 'I can ruin the government's plan'; Part Two: Golden Years: 1974-1976; 6 THE WILSON YEARS: 'Did you miss me?'; 7 OPPOSITION: 'I think I got something to say to you'; 8 OBSCENITY: 'I wanna take dirty pictures of you'