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Culture influenced Trainspotting
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
- Heroin subculture
- Punk culture
The evidence
Irvine Welsh's novel comes from the heroin scene of 1980s Edinburgh, written in the Scots of the housing schemes, among friends shaped by punk, unemployment and addiction.
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