Fifty Years On: A prejudicial history of Britain since the war (1997)

by Roy Hattersley

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This history of Britain since the war chronicles the main shifts in ideas and attitudes, changes in social structure and industrial performance and the influence of world events on Britain's economic prospects and international status. Examining how Britain has changed in the past half-century, it is written as a narrative in, more or less, chronological order. It is the anatomy of a journey that has taken the country from a post-war concensus on welfare to a new belief in individual enterprise.… (more)

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Fifty Years On: A prejudicial history of Britain since the war

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United Kingdom (UK general election | 1945 | coal industry nationalised | 1947 | establishment of the NHS | 1948 | coronation | 1953 | comprehensive education | 1965 | decimal currency | 1971 | miners' strike | 1984 | privatisation | 1986 | poll tax | 1990)

European Economic Community (UK joins | 1973)

Channel Tunnel (opened | 1992)

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Indian independence (1947)

Korean War (1950)

Invasion of Egypt (1956)

Falklands War (1982)

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It was Field Marshall Montgomery who best reflected the mood of the nation. On the evening of the German surrender on Luneburg Heath, he drafted what, with his usal sense of drama, he called 'My last message to the Armies'.

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The Conservative campaign broadcast {before the 1945 General Election} which claimed that a Labour Government would 'fall back on some sort of Gestapo' only had the effect of making the Tories seem extreme, ridiculous and desperate.

The mid-1960s were not the British people's liberal hour, but the liberal hour of the British Parliament

[Under Tony Blair]The radical party in Britain embraced what Karl Marx - no longer feared, hated or talked about much - would haave described as 'bourgeois values'

[Under Mgt Thatcher]the neglect of the old and feeble caused barely a stir outside the organisations that were professionally committed to their welfare, but for a while it seemed that the concern for the Health Service and hatred of the poll tax would guarantee a Tory humiliation...

[under Jamea Callaghan], the Trade Unions had become the symbol of an old and discredited view of society, and the @Tory party had in 1875 elected a leader who was determined to inahgurate the era of individualism that the nation believed would bring the long-delayed prosperity

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This history of Britain since the war chronicles the main shifts in ideas and attitudes, changes in social structure and industrial performance and the influence of world events on Britain's economic prospects and international status. Examining how Britain has changed in the past half-century, it is written as a narrative in, more or less, chronological order. It is the anatomy of a journey that has taken the country from a post-war concensus on welfare to a new belief in individual enterprise.

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