This class exists in these courses :
• Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines - Licence 3 Langues, Civilisation Etrangère - Anglais - S5 - 2.5 ECTS

Course description

Domestic Politics and Social Issues in Great Britain 1945 – 1991

1. Preparing for peace / reconstruction

• Nationalisation / centralisation


• The beginnings of the Welfare State


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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. The decline of established religion and the liberalisation of public morals

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            • The “Honest to God” debate / rise of evangelicalism
            
            
            • The media / scandal / the invasion of privacy
            
            
            • Homosexuality / abortion / censorship, etc.
            
            
            
            
          
          
          
          
        
        
        
        
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

Britain as a pluralistic society

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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