Alwyn W. Turners in-depth history of this most fascinating of decades has been highly praised by distinguished commentators like Dominic Sandbrook and Francis Wheen. If the Seventies, the subject of his previous book, were the last gasp of the old Britain, the Eighties were a truly transitional, politically evolutionary decade, when Thatcherism remade Britains economy and its society, but when Britains social fabric also changed in many infinitely more encouraging ways.
Witty and formidably well-informed on political intrigue, as well as every last soap opera and rock album, this is an exciting piece of genuinely new history.
