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The period between 1945 and the early 1970s were the years of ‘the long boom’. For almost three decades, the British economy, like other advanced economies, grew steadily. Standards of living increased in ways that could not have been imagined in the past. In 1957, the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, caught the mood of the time when he said ‘most of our people have never had it so good.’ There was one city that seemed to capture this spirit and that was Coventry.
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Haynes, M. (2019). Coventry in the Long Boom 1950–1970. In: Begley, J., Donnelly, T., Jarvis, D., Sissons, P. (eds) Revival of a City. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22822-4_4
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