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.