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John Shepherd

Crisis? What Crisis?

The Callaghan government and the British 'winter of discontent'

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Over thirty years later, the 'winter of discontent' of 1978-79 still resonates in British politics. On 22 January 1979, 1.5 million workers were on strike. Industrial unrest swept Britain in an Arctic winter. Militant shop stewards blocked medical supplies to hospitals; mountains of rubbish remained uncollected; striking road hauliers threatened to bring the country to a standstill; even the dead were left unburied. Within weeks, the beleaguered Callaghan Labour government fell from power. In the 1979 general election, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, beginning eighteen years of unbroken Conservative rule. Based on a wide range of n… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-5261-1080-0
  • EAN: 9781526110800
  • Produktnummer: 27907216
  • Verlag: Canongate Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'256 KB
  • Abbildungen: Illustrations, black & white

Über den Autor


John Shepherd is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Huddersfield

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