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1976: The Year that Scorched

By (author) Christopher Sandford

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Searing heat, political turmoil, revolution in popular culture: 1976 was without doubt the year that scorched, leaving in its wake a new landscape on which to build a new era. On the political scene, Harold Wilson abruptly resigned as prime minister; Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe resigned in advance of his arrest and sensational Old Bailey trial for conspiracy and incitement to murder; and the Tories elected 'Milk Snatcher' Margaret Thatcher as their party leader. The IRAâ€™s long-running demands for the reunification of Ireland exploded into a campaign of wholesale terrorism on the British mainland. Meanwhile, the Black Panther was finally arrested and brought to justice, and the curious case of John Stonehouse, the UKâ€™s last Postmaster General, came to its climax. Throw in the fact that Southampton defied 500:1 odds to win the FA Cup, and the irresistible rise of punk rock, triggered by the iconic moment when the Sex Pistols were let loose on an unsuspecting teatime-television audience, and 1976 proves itself a truly pendulum year that divides the old from the new - recaptured here in fully living, human detail.

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