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Podcast

Up-and-down towns

The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s


Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart explain how English towns attempted to inject cultural dynamism in the 1960s, what went wrong and how some of them underwent economic decline in the 1980s.

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