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An excellent outline of the political landscape of the 1970s is a welcome antidote to cliched analyses of the decade, says Steve Andrews
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That Option No Longer Exists: Britain 1974-1976, by John Medhurst (Zero Books, £11.99)
If there is one thing that nearly all historical accounts of Britain in the 1970s agree upon it is that the country was politically chaotic, economically in decline and culturally barren.
It was only with the advent of the Thatcher era that the admittedly harsh but fundamentally necessary measures were taken that would put society back on track. Or so the conventional narrative goes.
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