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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? 0The 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

1 IntroductionPart One - Careers2 Alfred von Tirpitz 3 Sergei Gorshkov Part Two - Writings4 Tirpitz - his writings5 Gorshkov - his writingsPart Three - Fleets6 The Imperial German Navy7 The Soviet NavyPart Four - Consequences8 Consequences and Assessment - Tirpitz9 Consequences and Assessment - GorshkovPart Five - Conclusions10 The continental experience with Seapower

Placemaking, community-building, and appropriation of public space -- Urban environmental sustainability and eradication of sexism -- Growers' markets, local foods, and sustainable business models -- A pay-it-forward strategy to combat food insecurity -- Successful offshoots of a supposedly failed movement -- LGBTQ+ activism in the long term -- An invitation to action.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 A History of Intolerance -- 2 Britain's Multiracial Society and the Failure of Extremism -- 3 Far Right Mainstreaming, Mainstreaming the Far Right -- 4 The Rise and Fall of the BNP -- 5 Breaking Point: Enter Ukip -- 6 Take Back Control: The EU Referendum -- 7 The Decline of England -- 8 A Western Disease -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Life, Art, and Mysticism -- chapter 2 Logic and Ethics as the Limits of the World -- chapter 3 To What Extent is Solipsism a Truth? -- chapter 4 Frege at Therapy -- chapter 5 'Making Sense' of Nonsense: Conant and Diamond Read Wittgenstein's Tractatus -- chapter 6 More Making Sense of Nonsense: From Logical Form to Forms of Life -- chapter 7 Saying and Showing: An Example from Anscombe Cora Diamond -- chapter 8 Why Worry about the Tractatus? -- chapter 9 Transcendence and Contradiction in the Tractatus -- chapter 10 Wittgenstein's Onto-Logic.

This investigation of Kierkegaard as a political thinker with regard to the Danish context, and to his place in the history of political thought, deals with the more direct discussion of politics in Kierkegaard, and the ways in which political ideas are embedded in his literary, aesthetic, ethical, philosophical, and religious thought.