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This short introduction to the social history of the 1970s will appeal to social historians and also to those who remember platform shoes, the Winter of Discontent and space hoppers.

About the Author

Dr Janet Shepherd gained her doctorate in Poor Law education. She teaches, and also specialises in children’s literature. Professor John Shepherd is co-director of the Labour Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and author of a biography of George Lansbury. Professor John Shepherd is Co-Director of the Labour History Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and author of George Lansbury (OUP, 2004). He is currently researching and writing a book on the Winter of Discontent for Manchester University Press.