Currency, land and self-sufficiency, since 1944.
Since the postwar settlement, money went from gold-backed to purely political, and the right to grow your own food, draw your own water, or do as you please on land you own was steadily reshaped by law, patent and private covenant. An interactive timeline of 19 currency, housing, food and water decisions since 1944, each paired with the evidence for what it actually did.
1944–2020s · 19 entries · UK & US
Three different kinds of claim, kept clearly apart.
19 currency, housing, food and water decisions since 1944, each tagged established, contested or correlational against legislation, court rulings and economic data.
An explicitly subjective autonomy-shift estimate and a paraphrase of how each shift is actually argued about online — built to be argued with, not cited.
Real UK data — the ONS house price-to-earnings ratio and the Bank of England's M4 money supply — alongside the more subjective material.
The interactive page opens with a banner explaining exactly which parts are sourced evidence and which are editorial opinion, so nothing gets mistaken for a study — including a couple of entries chosen specifically because they run against the page's own thread. Read it and decide for yourself →