Coventry in the Long Boom 1950–1970

Michael Haynes
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Michael Haynes: University of Wolverhampton

Chapter Chapter 4 in Revival of a City, 2019, pp 67-92 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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. StandardsMotor industry Standard of living increased in ways that could not have been imagined in the past. In 1957, the Prime Minister Harold MacmillanMacMillan, Harold, 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.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22822-4_4

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