Iniquity in Romford
Bernard Porter: Black Market Britain, 23 May 2013
Black Market Britain 1939-55
by Mark Roodhouse.
Oxford, 276 pp., £65, March 2013,978 0 19 958845 9 Show More
by Mark Roodhouse.
Oxford, 276 pp., £65, March 2013,
“... America was much less obedient.) Cartoon by David Langdon for ‘Punch’, November 1949. Mark Roodhouse’s answer to the crude question of just how much black market activity there was in Britain, both during the war and in the period of postwar austerity, is that, though widespread, it was far less so than might have been expected, given the ... ”
