A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
The Conservatives had been damaged by the Profumo scandal of 1963, and by the aristocratic aura of their new leader, Alec Douglas-Home, who had resigned his peerage to become Prime Minister. Labour ran on a platform of modernity and technological change, winning a slim majority and returning to power for the first time since 1951.
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