About the Book: Twelve Days that Made Modern Britain
This is the story of modern Britain, focusing on twelve formative days in the
history of the United Kingdom over the last five decades. By describing what
happened on those days and the subsequent consequences, Andrew Hindmoor paints a
suggestive-and to some perhaps provocative-portrait of what we have become and
how we got here. Everyone will have their own list of the truly formative
moments in British history over the last five decades. The twelve days selected
for this book are:
-The 28th of September 1976. The day Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan
renounced Keynesian economics.