The industrial unrest of the Winter of Discontent was the largest and most effective since the General Strike of 1926. Mrs Thatcher was waiting to strike.
Mrs Thatcher’s victory was a landmark in our political history. But it wasn’t just a reaction to the disastrous Winter of Discontent, it marked the culmination of a decade of tremendous change.
Were the 1970s sexually liberated or morally depraved? Mary Whitehouse and the Festival of Light were convinced it was the latter.
The Festival of light campaigners battled on, urging the government to crack down on the plague of pornography. But by February 1974. Edward Heath was locked in a very different battle, in which his political survival was at stake.
The seventies may be remembered as the time of the unions and huge political change, but it was also a time of great music, art and festivals.
Dominic Sandbrook may have fond memories of the seventies but, he is not alone. Many of us who are now advancing into retirement age grew up in the seventies.
Hyson Green was, in the 1970s, a striking example of how badly wrong the city planners got it. Alcatraz, the jungle failed and is now a supermarket.
But the failure of the high-rise housing experiment was hugely damaging in a deeper sense too. It helped to fuel a growing mistrust of Government planning and a loss of faith in their supposedly benign bureaucrats.
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