Andy Beckett

Andy Beckett’s latest book is Promised You a Miracle: Why 1980-82 Made Modern Britain.

In the LRB Archive:

• Nine White Men Armed with Iron Bars: Postwar Immigrant Experience · 2 November 2017

  • Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Postwar Britain by Clair Wills

• Vuvuzelas Unite: The Trade Union Bill · 22 October 2015

  • Trade Union Bill (HC Bill 58)
  • Trade Union Membership 2014: Statistical Bulletin

• Seconds from a Punch-Up: Irvine Welsh · 10 May 2012

  • Skagboys by Irvine Welsh

• Aunt Twackie’s Bazaar: Seventies Style · 19 August 2010

  • 70s Style and Design by Dominic Lutyens and Kirsty Hislop

• Another Tribe: PiL, Wire et al · 1 September 2005

  • Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-84 by Simon Reynolds

• Political Gothic: David Peace does the miners’ strike · 23 September 2004

  • GB84 by David Peace

• Cod on Ice: The BBC · 10 July 2003

  • Panorama: Fifty Years of Pride And Paranoia by Richard Lindley
  • The Harder Path: The Autobiography by John Birt

• When Capitalism Calls: The Protest Ethic by John Lloyd · 4 April 2002

  • The Protest Ethic: How the Anti-Globalisation Movement Challenges Social Democracy by John Lloyd

• Diary: in Chile · 25 January 2001

  • Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir by Marc Cooper

• Bringing Down Chunks of the Ceiling: Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City by Dave Haslam · 17 February 2000

  • Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City by Dave Haslam

• They both hated DLT: Radio 1 · 15 April 1999

  • The Nation’s Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1 by Simon Garfield

• Perishability: Bo Fowler · 3 September 1998

  • Scepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler

• Whatever: Dennis Cooper’s short novel · 21 May 1998

  • Guide by Dennis Cooper

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