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For art’s sake?

Stephen Hetherington looks at how New Labour’s approach to culture twinned it with economic benefits and social policy

Arts Professional
5 min read

The day Chris Smith took over the Department of National Heritage in July 1997, he declared in a letter to staff that he would place it “at the centre of the country’s economic life and re...

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