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Corrie and ready-salted crisps: the years when modern Britain began

A review of A Shake of the Dice: Modernity Britain 1959 – 62, by David Kynaston. A formidable and intimate history of four remarkable years

Tenements in the Gorbals area of Glasgow — considered some of the worst slums in Britain — are replaced by high-rise flats, c. 1960 [Getty Images/iStock]
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  • A Shake of the Dice: Modernity Britain 1959—62

    David Kynaston

    Bloomsbury, pp. 459

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