1974: forty years on

Mark Dunton looks back at UK National events in 1974 in this
illustrated podcast. Drawing on the public records he highlights
some unusual or little known aspects about the events of that
year. 1974 was a difficult year in modern British history - the
two general elections, the economic situation, the collapse of
the Court Line air travel business for package holidays, the
disaster at the Flixborough chemical plant, and IRA bombings -
but some popular culture references remind us of lighter moments.


Mark Dunton specialises in researching the records of post-1945
Britain, including political, social and economic history and the
policies of the Heath government in the early 1970s.