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Author | : Andy Cook |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1527578348 |
Download The Politics of Decimalisation in the UK Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The introduction of decimal currency in the UK and Ireland in February 1971 is a subject strangely neglected by historians of the period, despite it being a change which affected the daily life of everyone living in the British Isles at the time. Most histories of the 1960s and 1970s treat it as a mere footnote, an administrative reform of little significance, or ignore it altogether. What commentary there has been tends to be ill-informed, seeing decimalisation either as a harbinger of creeping Europeanisation or the trigger for the inflation of the mid-1970s or both. 50 years after “D-Day” there has been no comprehensive historical study of decimalisation, other than an official account by the secretary to the Decimal Currency Board, Noel Moore, in 1973. This ground-breaking work debunks the myths around the decimalisation project, and demonstrates, through an extensive examination of official documents and contemporary media reports, that the reform was an essentially conservative one. Far from ditching tradition in favour of ‘Euro-normality’, by retaining the pound as the ‘heaviest’ currency in the developed world, the UK government, keen to maintain the supposed prestige of Sterling effectively defended British exceptionalism. Only in the Irish Republic was the issue of compatibility with the currencies of Western Europe seriously considered. In examining the debates around decimalisation in Britain and Ireland from the mid-1950s through to 1971, this book fills a gap in the historiography, and through the prism of decimalisation, nuances our understanding of both the internal politics of the UK and Ireland, and relationships with Europe and the Commonwealth.
Author | : Mark Stocker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781912667567 |
Download When Britain Went Decimal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The United Kingdom was the last major nation-state in the world to adopt decimal currency, 50 years ago in 1971. Why was it so slow to do so? What changed politicians' and peoples' minds about it in the 1960s? Were Britain's plans to join the EEC influential? What was the impact of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand going decimal several years earlier? Or did it simply happen because of common sense, with a decimal system so much easier to learn and use than pounds, shillings and pence?The route to find the right designs was a complex one, with interfering politicians, struggling artists, and at one stage an angry Duke of Edinburgh! It took over five years to get there, and then there was the seven-sided 50 pence - a design classic we would say today, but what did the media and public think of it when it was launched in 1969?When Britain Went Decimal takes readers through the changeover leading to D-Day (decimalisation day), and beyond: how smooth and successful was the process? Did newspapers secretly hope it would fail? While decimalisation might have seemed right at the time, did it lead to inflation, as many people believe today?Entertainingly written and beautifully illustrated, this first book on decimalisation since 1973 attempts to answer all these questions and more, looking as much at the design - indeed the 'art' behind the new coinage - as at social, economic and political history.
Author | : Great Britain. Treasury |
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Decimal currency |
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Author | : James Laurie (Author of Tables of Simple Interest.) |
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Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1854 |
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Download Decimal Coinage. A Practical Analysis of the Comparative Merits of One Pound and Tenpence as the Ruling Integer of a Decimal Currency for the United Kingdom ... Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : James LAURIE (Wine Merchant.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1854 |
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Download Decimal Coinage. A practical analysis of the comparative merits of One Pound and Tenpence as the ruling integer of a decimal currency for the United Kingdom, etc Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : D. Neville Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Decimal system |
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Download Decimal Currency for Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Emma Howard |
Publisher | : Spink Books |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2022-02-28 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1912667835 |
Download Coins of England and the United Kingdom (2022) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Coins of England and the United Kingdom Pre-Decimal and Decimal volumes comprise the Standard Catalogue of British Coins, with the pre-decimal issues under Elizabeth II (and all previous coinage) listed in a separate volume. This volume of Decimal issues under Elizabeth II gives a comprehensive overview of all individual coins and sets issued by the Royal Mint since 1971 (and in circulation since 1968), offering an authoritative catalog of modern British coins. The revisions and updates completed in 2021 have been built upon to provide a completely comprehensive guide to decimal coinage in the year of its 50th anniversary, and the volume is published in hardback for the first time to celebrate this milestone.
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Download Decimal Currency in the United Kingdom (Decimal Currency) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Robert Turner Rohde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1887 |
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Download A practicable decimal system for Great Britain and colonies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : N. E. A. Moore |
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Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Download The Decimalisation of Britain's Currency Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle