Ce cours apparaît dans les formations suivantes :
• Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines - Licence 3 Langues, Civilisation Etrangère - Anglais - S5 - 2.5 ECTS

Objectifs du cours

Ce cours permet d’obtenir une bonne connaissance de l’histoire du Royaume Uni de 1945 à 1990. Les étudiants apprendront à rediger une dissertation historique et un dossier de recherche sur un sujet historique ou politique.

Contenu du cours

Course program :

Domestic Politics and Social Issues in Great Britain 1945 – 1991

• Preparing for peace / Reconstruction

- Nationalisation / Centralisation

- The beginnings of the Welfare State

- Re-etablishment of political identities (end of coalition, persistence of two-party system, decline of liberals / establishment and death of SDP)

• Economic questions

- J.M. Keynes & Co

- Sterling party / deflation / devaluation

- From rationing to the affluent society and back to austerity

- The growth of an underclass

• Industrial relations

- The role of the TUC and its relationship with the Labour Party

- Cooperation to conflict to decline of the unions

- Questions of unemployment

- Trade Unions

• The Arts

- The beginnings of a government cultural policy

- The swinging sixties and birth of pop music

- Creation of teen culture

- Culture & the regions / minorities

• The decline of established religion and liberalisation of public morals

- Britain as a pluralistic society

- The “Honest to God” debate / rise of evangelicalism

- The media / scandal / the invasion of privacy

- Homosexuality / abortion / censorship, etc.

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Bibliographie

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  BIBLIOGRAPHY :||
  D. THOMSON – England in the Twentieth Century – Penguin||
  K.O. MORGAN – The People’s Peace – Oxford University Press||
  A. CAIRNCROSS – The British Economy since 1945 – Oxford University Press||
  M. SMITH – British Foreign Policy: Tradition, Change & Transformation