Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s
By Alwyn W. Turner
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Nostalgia for the 1970s has been booming in Britain: what was once derided as the decade that taste forgot is now lauded as a high point of popular culture; even the decade’s myriad crises seem, at a safe distance, like a compelling drama. Whether this affection will survive a bout of 1970s-style stagflation remains to be seen. But for now, the celebration rolls on.