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