Changing Britain 1997 - 2015

The third weekend of events as part of Changing Britain festival.

Talks, debates, exhibitions, concerts and installations examine Britain's post-war recovery, the Festival of Britain and the creation of the welfare state.

Changing Britain is a festival looking at 70 years of British history, focusing on society, culture and politics

New Labour's three terms barely checked the steeply rising inequality that had marked the Thatcher period. The democratic process, certainly at the level of public trust in politicians, was becoming increasingly ragged. London the city-state was drawing increasingly apart from the rest of Britain.