Bang! · A History of Britain in the 1980s by Stewart, Graham -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title page Copyright page Dedication page Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Jim’ll Fix It

Waiting at the Church Floating or Sinking? Crisis? What Crisis? The Ayes to the Right

2 Hello Maggie!

Marketing Maggie Five Weeks that Shaped a Decade? A Woman in Power

3 The Centre Cannot Hold

The Joy of Monetarism The Pain of Monetarism ‘Wets’ and ‘Dries’ Trouble for Tina

4 Ghost Town

Breadline Britain Long Hot Summer – The Brixton and Toxteth Riots The Hunger Strikes

5 The Alternative

The Democracy of the Committed Gang of Four – Bright Dawn over Limehouse The Donkey-Jacket Tendency Breaking the Mould?

6 The Empire Strikes Back

The Last Good-Old-Fashioned War? White Flags over Whitehall Towards the Abyss Sink the Belgrano! White Flags over Stanley

7 Resurrection

The Resolute Approach Recovery The North Sea Oil Bonanza . . . and Where It Went

8 Two Tribes

Protest and Survive Protect and Survive Cold Thaw

9 Culture Shock

Paying the Piper Next Programme Follows Shortly You Have Been Watching The British Are Coming . . . and Going

10 Style Over Substance?

After Modernism Po-Mo – The Spirit of the Age

11 Electric Baroque

Are ‘Friends’ Electric? Ridicule Is Nothing to Be Scared of Money for Nothing The Rise and Fall of the Indies Welcome to the Acid House Madchester

12 Moral Panic

No Such Thing as Society Law and Disorder Don’t Die of Ignorance Faith, Hope and Charity Liberty, Equality, Fraternity?

13 The Workers, United, Will Never Be Defeated

Which Side Are You On? – The Miners’ Strike The End of the Street – Revolution at Wapping On the Waterfront United They Stand?

14 Creative Destruction

Rolling Back the State A Tale of Two Cities The Predators’ Ball Greed Is Good Loaded, Landed, Leveraged

15 An End To Old Certainties

Ten More Years! Ten More Years! Whitehall versus Town Hall The Diet of Brussels Scrapping the Iron Lady

16 Legacy Appendix Notes Bibliography Note on the author Index