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Contents
A changing political and economic environment 1918-1979 ............................................................................ 3
Timeline ........................................................................................................................................................... 3
Changes in the political landscape ................................................................................................................. 4
Rise of Labour .............................................................................................................................................. 6
Conservative Dominance 1918-1931 .......................................................................................................... 8
The National Government ......................................................................................................................... 10
Consensus 1945-1979................................................................................................................................ 13
Changes in the economic landscape ............................................................................................................ 21
Changes in industrial relations ..................................................................................................................... 29
1918-1939.................................................................................................................................................. 29
1939-1964.................................................................................................................................................. 30
1964-1979.................................................................................................................................................. 32
Creating a Welfare State 1918-1979 ................................................................................................................ 34
Timeline ......................................................................................................................................................... 34
Welfare support ............................................................................................................................................ 34
Pre-1918 .................................................................................................................................................... 34
Interwar years ........................................................................................................................................... 35
Impact of WW2 ......................................................................................................................................... 38
The Atlee government .............................................................................................................................. 39
Challenges to the welfare state 1964-1979 ............................................................................................. 40
Healthcare ..................................................................................................................................................... 41
Pre 1918 .................................................................................................................................................... 41
The Interwar years .................................................................................................................................... 41
Impact of WW2 ......................................................................................................................................... 42
The Creation of the NHS ........................................................................................................................... 43
Healthcare 1951-1979............................................................................................................................... 44
Education ....................................................................................................................................................... 45
Early 20th Century...................................................................................................................................... 45
40’s onwards ............................................................................................................................................. 46
University 1918-1979 ................................................................................................................................ 48
Society in transition .......................................................................................................................................... 49
Changes in class ............................................................................................................................................. 49
The Upper Class......................................................................................................................................... 49
The Middle Class ....................................................................................................................................... 50
The Working Class ..................................................................................................................................... 51




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The Growth of the Permissive Society 1951-1979 ........................................................................................ 52
Liberal laws ............................................................................................................................................... 52
A more sexual society? ............................................................................................................................. 53
Changing attitudes to homosexuality ...................................................................................................... 54
Opposition to the permissive society....................................................................................................... 55
Immigration ................................................................................................................................................... 56
Women .......................................................................................................................................................... 60
Changing Quality of Life.................................................................................................................................... 61
Living Standards 1918-1979 .......................................................................................................................... 61
Boom, crisis, recovery and war -1918-1945 ............................................................................................. 61
Growth of a consumer society 1951-1979 ............................................................................................... 63
Mass Popular Culture .................................................................................................................................... 64
Cinema....................................................................................................................................................... 64
Radio.......................................................................................................................................................... 64
Music ......................................................................................................................................................... 65
Television .................................................................................................................................................. 66
Youth Culture ............................................................................................................................................ 66
Leisure pursuits ............................................................................................................................................. 67
Football - growth and decline of live spectatorship ................................................................................ 67
Holidays and tourism ................................................................................................................................ 68
Travel Developments ................................................................................................................................ 68
Impact of Thatcher 1979-90 ............................................................................................................................. 70
Margaret Thatcher ........................................................................................................................................ 70
Economics ...................................................................................................................................................... 70
Monetarism............................................................................................................................................... 71
Privatisation .............................................................................................................................................. 71
Deregulation ............................................................................................................................................. 72
Taxation..................................................................................................................................................... 72
Trade Unions ............................................................................................................................................. 73
Was the state ‘rolled back’? .......................................................................................................................... 74
Thatcher’s views ....................................................................................................................................... 74
Civil Service ............................................................................................................................................... 75
Local Government ..................................................................................................................................... 75
NHS ............................................................................................................................................................ 76
Education................................................................................................................................................... 76
Overall: ...................................................................................................................................................... 76




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