Ashes to Ashes: The Decline And Fall of Coal-Fired Electricity
A Long Time In Finance
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Shifts in Britain's Energy Landscape
This chapter explores Britain's historical dependence on coal for electricity generation and the subsequent transition to oil and gas by the late 1940s. It examines the economic and structural factors that influenced this shift, alongside the social and political challenges faced by the coal industry during the miners' strike era.
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