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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Preface

A Note on Money

Part 1 How it was Then

Prologue The Eve of the Decade

1 Goodbye to All That

2 A Great Clearance

3 Dole Country

4 Mapping Britain

5 Hungry Britain

Coda The ‘Hatry Crash’

Part 2 The Search for Solutions

Prologue R101 Disaster

6 ‘Can We Conquer Unemployment?’

7 (Too Much) Time to Spare

8 The Hard Road Travelled

9 Primers for the Age

Coda Searching for the Gleam

Part 3 Planning England (and Scotland and Wales)

Prologue Follies

10 Accommodating the Octopus

11 Accommodating the People

12 Accommodating Other People

13 Grand Designs

Coda The Edge of the World

Part 4 1936

14 The King is Dead

15 ‘I am Spain …’

16 Wanting the Palm not the Dust

Part 5 Feeling the Texture

Prologue An Iceberg on Fire

17 Choosing Between Gas Masks and God’s Tasks

18 A1 Men and Consuming Women

19 Holy Deadlock

20 Regimenting Mass Happiness

21 Spittoons in Arcadia

22 Dreamland

23 Not Cricket

Coda ‘The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself …’

Part 6 1938 to 1939

24 A Scenic Ride to Catastrophe

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index

By the Same Author

Copyright

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