Publisher's Synopsis
Martin Adeney's generation was the last to be born while the British Empire still existed. They were 'twilight's children', and, like those generations that followed, shaped by its consequences. Born in the British Middle East as the Empire tottered, Adeney would go on to report on the grand events of the post-Imperial age, for The Guardian, as Industrial Correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph, and then as the BBC's Industrial Editor. His career gave him a unique vantage point from which to observe the decline of the great industries and imperial trade cities; the rise and fall of the trades unions, which dominated politics from the end of the 1960s to the mid-1980s, and the rise of Thatcherism and big business. This blend of memoir and narrative history describes how many of the issues that preoccupied us in the late '60s and early '70s remain the daily currency of our political discourse.
