Britain and Europe

Two referendums, one currency Britain never joined, and the day it left the exchange rate mechanism.

2 modules · about 20 minutes

Free while the series is being written None of the 2 modules are written yet. Nothing is charged and no account is needed.

The 2 modules

Modules are written to be read in order: each one opens on the question the last one closed with. Start wherever you like.

1 Black Wednesday 16 September 1992. Rates raised twice in one day, and out of the mechanism by teatime. Coming soon Free

2 The Brexit Referendum 2016 to 2020. What was forecast, what was measured, and why the two are hard to compare. Coming soon Free

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