Episode 126 - Sound as a Pound

Today we begin our Depression European tour and take a look at the UK. That nation had already been suffering a prolonged recession through most of the 20s, so the Great Depression only added to the nation's woes. While the politics of the nation wouldn't go haywire like they would elsewhere, it did doom the Labour-Liberal coalition that held power in late 1929, and created the conditions for a decade of Conservative dominance. 

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

1. Taylor, AJP The Oxford History of England, Vol 15 Oxford University Press, 1978
2. Moway, Charles Loch Britain Between the Wars Methuen & Co, 1972
3. Hattersley, Roy Borrowed Time Little, Brown, 2007
4. Floud, Roderick and Paul Johnson The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain Volume II: Economic Maturity 1860-1939 Cambridge University Press 2004

 

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