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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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English disease
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Term used in continental Europe in the 1960s and 1970s to explain the sluggish state of the British economy. The symptoms were seen as strikes, restrictive practices, absenteeism and prolonged tea breaks. In the 1980s the same term was applied to *soccer hooliganism.
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