Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question. What are the core books I should read to learn about the 1970s, especially relating to the unions, the welfare state and stagflation? What should I read to get a good perspective from the left and the right?
Andy Beckett writes very readable social history - look for When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies and then Promised You a Miracle: UK 80-82 - they're sort of a set
Another is Dominic Sandbrook - Who Dares Wins: Britain 1979-82