Plenty | Historical Context
England in 1978
England is one of the countries that comprise the United Kingdom along with Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In 1978, the year of Plenty's debut, Prime Minister James Callaghan and Queen Elizabeth U presided over the United Kingdom, whose population at the time was approximately 55,780,000 people.
British Arts and Literature in the 1970s
According to Arthur Marwick in British Society since 1945, "British art merged anonymously into the major international trends'' and thus did not necessarily advance a "distinctively...
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