Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain

What was "Creative Britain"? Was it the "golden age" that Tony Blair
vaunted in 2007, or a neoliberal nirvana? In the twenty-first century,
culture-the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, the
creative industries -have become ever more important to governments,
to the economy, and to how people live. Cultural historian Robert
Hewison shows how, from Cool Britannia and the Millennium Dome
to the Olympics and beyond, Creative Britain rose from the desert of
Thatcherism only to fall into the slough of New Labour's managerialism