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1963 and “white heat” in Scarborough
Fifty years ago, the Government made a low-key announcement of a change in policy in relation to the use of metric units by industry. We consider how a speech by the Leader of the Opposition two years earlier had signalled … Continue reading
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Tagged Douglas Jay, Harold Wilson, industrial policy, science, technology, white heat, Winston Churchill
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