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Summary Society notes for AQA A level History: Making of Modern Britain

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Notes covering the society section for all PMs. Useful for comparison, revision, essay planning etc. Good luck with your exams!

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Period Social attitudes Women Race relations Pressure/oppositional Technological Impact of policies
groups (discontents) development
Conserv Class Employment Influx of immigration: Youth subculture 1951 – Festival of Britain Affluence
atives - continuation of Family Allowance - from the Commonwealth 10% of the population showcased its 1953 – end of rationing
1951-64 tradition: 80% of the - payment for each child countries - no National service for technological - increase in average
middle class voted to encourage women to - for economic reasons boys developments. wage from 8 to 15
cons; 2/3 of the stay at home (low-paid jobs) - girls spending less time 😊 seen as a beginning pounds
working class – Labour 🙁 gender pay gap helping with housework of a new age - building of new houses
🙁 hostile trade unions Violence: - baby boom (property owning
Anti-Establishment did not want female Notting Hill riots, 1957 - teenagers targeted by Rise of living standards: democracy)
movements: workers - young white men started advertisement and - mods and cons - inflation never
- young angry men: 🙁 Bowlby’s theory of ‘ni*ger hunts’ and then fashion and made to feel available: refrigerators, affected real wages
writers who reflected attachment used as a violence turned the other special microwaves - availability of credit
on contemporary justification for women way - intergenerational - sales of cars and hire purchase
society to stay at home 🙁 house shortages and conflicts quadrupled
- mocking shows and 😊 equal pay in teaching tensions in the job market Education
satire (it was the week and civil service Sub-cultures Television Beveridge report –
that was, Beyond the Commonwealth Act, 1962 Teddy boys – Edwardian - broadcasting of pointed the lack of
Fringe) Availability of mod cons - creation of a voucher fashion, linked to coronation science and
- Private Eye gave more free time system delinquency and rising 1955 – ITV: backwardness
magazine: celebrity 🙁 housework seen as - surge in immigration crime advertisement to match -> establishment of
gossip and criticism of responsibility for women before ratification Rockers – rode the consumer boom state schools
politicians 🙁 seen as racist, as target motorbikes and listened
- social scientist Economic dependence New Commonwealth to rock Leisure
criticised the lack of on men, as tax (‘coloured’) Mods – rode scooters and Butlins became popular
meritocracy authorities classified listened to pop and affordable
- scandals: Profumo women dependent on 🙁 foreign travelling
affair, 1963 husbands/fathers Clashes between Mods available to 2% of
and Rockers in 1964 in population
- increase in the social south-coast holiday
mobility (cars, resorts caused moral
cleaning of slut panic.
houses)
- tripartite education
system highlighted
inequality between
classes
Labour - backlash against The Contraception Pill, - increase in ethnic Mary Whitehouse moral Cars End of capital

, 64-70 permissiveness of the 1961 (married), 67 – diversity crusade: letter writing - new roads and Punishment, 1965
society everyone - discrimination in 1963 – National Viewers motorways - the case of young
- Christianity and 😊 freedom in sexual employment and listeners association - more accessible mother Ellis
religious values were relationships - social discontents - variety of travelling - polls showed majority
losing importance 1967 – Asians from Kenya Youth Culture and leisure was in favour of death
- reflection of the anti- Abortion Act, 1967 and Uganda - rise of drug consumption penalty
establishment mood - thalidomide disease 1967 – Dangerous Drugs Beeching report: 🙁 the criminal rates did
- argument for more caused a sway in public Race Relations Act, 1965 Act - closure of Victorian not fall
civilised society opinions - ban on discrimination in - majority against sex railways
- 200,000 illegal public places before marriage 🙁 public discontent Educational reform
Relaxation of abortions each year - race relations board - mods and rockers Robbinson report about
censorship - 2 doctors had to 😊 first legislation tensions Television the backwardness of
Lady Chatterley case consent 🙁 ambiguous - commercial influences - 91% of population education
- Penguin allowed to - rise in abortions (but - Beatles - advertisement
publish the book many doctors object) 1968 - leisure activity: live - unfairness of the
Theatres Act, 1968 - change in idea about + housing and Sexual liberation events decline tripartite system
- Lord Chamberlain sex consequences employment - premarital, single - less class boundaries Crosland’s Circular to
removed 🙁 racial balance mothers, homosexuality - national standard LEA to change to
- Hair performance Divorce Reform, 1969 argument for 1955 - ITV comprehensive schools
Films - no need to prove discrimination Anti-Vietnam protests to receive funding
- sex and violence adultery 🙁 only 10% of complaints - catalysis in 1968 Radio 🙁 disruption of
more widespread 🙁 rise in divorces (often upheld - portable, with long education
negatively affecting CND rallies battery, car, earphones 🙁 private schools
Commercial boom women) Commonweath - supported by the left of - pirate station with pop remained
- advertisement 😊 recognition of equal immigration act, 1968 Labour and trade unions music Radio
- consumerism and partnership - no right of residence - 100,000 rallies between Luxembourg Open University
materialism unless a passport holder 1958-63 - BBC radio one - online, accessible and
Second wave feminist was a patrial inclusive lectures
movement 🙁 less effect of change on Pring Media - Lee’s project
😊 policy progress old Commonwealth - popular: 2/3 adults
🙁 still earned less, did (Canada, whites) - The Sun est. Homosexuality 1967
housework - colourful and glossy Sexual offences act
Powell’s rivers of blood fashion magazines - to protect national
Technological speech, 1968 secrets
developments: - polls showed support for Travelling - in private between
😊 freed time him - low-cost, package consenting adults
OU – study opportunity holidays 🙁 ambiguous
- Butlins remained

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