Surely no one can argue that Africa has recovered from the economic Crisis of the 1980s.

Original industrialisation led to the Welsh language surviving and the number of Welsh speakers doubled in the 19th century, but that industrial base largely disappeared in the 1930s and was in Crisis in the 1980s.

I became a director before Opera North suffered a financial Crisis in the 1980s, when the West Yorkshire council was abolished, and at a time when the council awarded extra funding to stabilise the company.