Beckett, Promised You a Miracle: UK 80-82 (2015)

Andy Beckett.
Promised You a Miracle: UK 80-82.
London: Allen Lane (Penguin Random House), 2015.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.

Book excerpt: Andy Beckett, "Toxteth, 1981: the summer Liverpool burned – by the rioter and economist on opposite sides," The Guardian, 14 September 2015.

Author information:

• Andy Beckett at The Guardian.
• Andy Beckett at London Review of Books.
• Andy Beckett, "Vuvuzelas Unite," London Review of Books, Vol. 37, No. 20, 22 October 2015.
  On recent events in British trade unions.
• Andy Beckett is also the author of:
  When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies, London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 2009.
  [Publisher, hardcover; Publisher, paperback; Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk.]
  The post on that book in this blog is here.
  

Video and Events:

• Mark Fisher, "Promised You A Miracle," Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, October 2015.
  "A collage made by Mark Fisher (kpunk) to introduce a talk by Andy Beckett on his new book, Promised You A Miracle: UK 80-82. The event took place in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths on 12th October 2015."
  Event announcement on Visual Cultures' Twitter feed; Event announcement on Facebook.
• Andy Beckett, Ken Livingstone and Jonathan Derbyshire, "Red Ken's GLC: Loonies or Visionaries?," Bishopsgate Institute, London, 08 October 2015.
  Book excerpt.
• "Book Launch: Andy Beckett," SPERI, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 16 February 2016.
• Simple Minds, "Promised You A Miracle," Virgin Records, 1982.
  YouTube; Wikipedia: Simple Minds; Promised You A Miracle.
• "Protect and Survive," late 1970s - early 1980s:
  YouTube; Wikipedia.
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Two Tribes," ZTT Records, 1984.
  YouTube; Wikipedia: Frankie Goes to Hollywood; Two Tribes.

Book Reviews:

• John Campbell, "Book Review: Our modern, complex country has its roots in the early 1980s, argues a new study," Independent, 27 August 2015.
• Andrew Neather, "Pivotal years of the recent past," Evening Standard, 27 August 2015.
• Daniel Finkelstein, "Book Review," The Times, 29 August 2015. (subscription required)
• Lynsey Hanley, "Review," Financial Times, 4 September 2015.
• Ian Jack, "how today’s Britain was born in the early 80s," The Guardian, 5 September 2015.
• Jason Cowley, "A “nearly-history” of the Eighties, Britain’s decade of boom, bust and Tory triumph," New Statesman, 14 September 2015.
• Jonathan Derbyshire, "Book review," Prospect, September 2015.
• Richard Vinen, "Maggie Rising," Literary Review, September 2015. (subscription required)
• Mark Perryman, "Autumn books for the Corbyn effect," Left Futures, November 2015.
• Kevin Devine, "Books," Socialist Review, December 2015.

Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000, 2e (2004)

Peter Clarke.
Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000, second edition.
London: Penguin Books, 2004.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Penguin History of Britain

Author information:

• Peter Clarke, Wikipedia.

Lectures and Video:

Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain, BBC, 2009.
Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain, Wikipedia.

• Episode 1: "A New Dawn" (YouTube)
• Episode 2: "Road to War" (YouTube)
• Episode 3: "The Great War" (YouTube 1; YouTube 2)
• Episode 4: "Having a Ball" (YouTube)
• Episode 5: "Little Britain" (YouTube)
• Episode 6: "Britannia at Bay" (YouTube)

These programs by Andrew Marr are an introduction to the period 1900-1945. The book associated with the television series is:
Andrew Marr, The Making of Modern Britain: From Queen Victoria to VE Day, London: Pan Books (Macmillan) 2009.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]

Vernon Bogdanor, Gresham College, London.

• Britain in the Twentieth Century, 2010-2012.
  YouTube playlist.
• Making the Weather: Six Politicians who shaped our age, 2012-2013.
  YouTube playlist.
• Britain and Europe, 2013-2014.
  YouTube playlist.
• Six General Elections, 2014-2015.
  YouTube playlist.
• Political Crises Since 1945, 2015-2016.
  YouTube playlist.

James Vernon, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley.

• "History 151C - Imperial Britain, 1714 to the present," course webpage, with course outline and links to Required Readings. Prof. Vernon frequently refers to these Readings in his lectures.
• YouTube Playlist: History 151C - Fall 2011, The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1848-2000.
  Lecture 1 is not in this playlist; Lecture 8 is out of order, at the bottom of the list.
  History 151C, Fall 2011 course description.
• YouTube Playlist: History 151C - Spring 2013, The Peculiar Modernity of Britain, 1750 to the present.
  Lectures not available and missing from this playlist: 4, 10, 11, 14, 19, 20.
  iTunes.
  History 151C, Spring 2013 course description.
• James Vernon, faculty webpage, Department of History, University of California, Berkekey.

Prof. Vernon's lectures cover some aspects of British history (social, cultural) that are not treated in much detail, if at all, in Peter Clarke's book.

Land of Hope and Glory; Jerusalem

• Vera Lynn, "Land of Hope and Glory," 1962.
• "Land of Hope and Glory," Last Night of the Proms: 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012.
• Wikipedia: Edward Elgar; Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1; A. C. Benson; Land of Hope and Glory.
• "Jerusalem."

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United Kingdom : Early 20th century.
• Edwardian era (1901-1914).
• History of the United Kingdom during World War I (1914-1918).
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• History of the United Kingdom : Interwar era (1918-1939).
• Great Depression in the United Kingdom.
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• History of the United Kingdom : Second World War.
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• Economic history of the United Kingdom : 1900-1945.
• Social history of England : 20th century.
• William Beveridge, Social Insurance and Allied Services, (commonly known as the Beveridge Report), 1942.
  Extract from The Beveridge Report, Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
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• History of the United Kingdom : Postwar.
• History of the United Kingdom (1945–present) (political narrative).
• Postwar Britain (1945-present).
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• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Post-war consensus.
• Economic history of the United Kingdom : 1945 to 2001.
• Social history of England : Since 1945.
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• British Empire.
• Economy of the United Kingdom.
Component Nations of the United Kingdom:
• History of England : 20th and 21st centuries.
• History of Scotland : Early 20th century.
• History of Scotland : Postwar.
• Modern history of Wales.
• History of Northern Ireland.
• Ulster : History.
Prime Ministers:
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, (June 1895 – July 1902)
• Arthur Balfour (July 1902 – December 1905)
• Henry Campbell-Bannerman (December 1905 – April 1908)
• H. H. Asquith (April 1908 – December 1916)
• David Lloyd George (December 1916 – October 1922)
• Bonar Law (October 1922 – May 1923)
• Stanley Baldwin (May 1923 – January 1924)
• Ramsay MacDonald (January 1924 – November 1924)
• Stanley Baldwin (November 1924 – June 1929)
• Ramsay MacDonald (June 1929 – June 1935)
• Stanley Baldwin (June 1935 – May 1937)
• Neville Chamberlain (May 1937 – May 1940)
• Winston Churchill (May 1940 – July 1945)
• Clement Attlee (July 1945 - October 1951)
• Winston Churchill (October 1951 - April 1955)
• Anthony Eden (April 1955 - January 1957)
• Harold Macmillan (January 1957 - October 1963)
• Alec Douglas-Home (October 1963 - October 1964)
• Harold Wilson (October 1964 - June 1970)
• Edward Heath (June 1970 - March 1974)
• Harold Wilson (March 1974 - April 1976)
• James Callaghan (April 1976 - May 1979)
• Margaret Thatcher (May 1979 - November 1990)
• John Major (November 1990 – May 1997)
• Tony Blair (May 1997 – June 2007)
• Gordon Brown (June 2007 – May 2010)
Monarchs:
• Queen Victoria, June 1837 – January 1901.
• Edward VII, January 1901 – May 1910.
• George V, May 1910 – January 1936.
• Edward VIII, January – December 1936.
• George VI, December 1936 – February 1952.
• Elizabeth II, February 1952 – present.

Other books on Britain, Twentieth Century, noted in this blog:

• Skidelsky, Britain Since 1900: A Success Story? (2014).
• Smith, Something Will Turn Up: Britain’s economy, past, present and future (2015).
• Beckett, When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies (2009).
• Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s (2008).
• Wheen, Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia (2010).
• Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life (1957; 2009).
• Bronstein & Harris, Empire, State, and Society: Britain since 1830 (2012).