Britain since 1945: The People's Peace is the first comprehensive study by a professional historian of British history from 1945 to the present day. It examines the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the rise of New Labour. Its themes include the troubles of the British economy; public criticism of the legitimacy of the state and its instruments of authority; the co-existence of growing personal prosperity with widespread social inequality; and the debates aroused by decolonization, and Britain's relationship to the Commonwealth, the US and Europe. Changes in cultural life, from the puritanical 'austerity' of the 1940's, through the 'permissiveness' of the 1960s, to the tensions and achievements of recent years are also charted.
Using a wide variety of sources, including the records of political parties and the most recently released documents from the Public Records Office, Kenneth Morgan brings the story right up to date and draws comparisons with the post-war history of other nations. This penetrating analysis by a leading twentieth-century historian will prove invaluable to anyone interested in the development of the Britain of today.
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Review from previous edition an outstanding work: comprehensive, lucid and judicious. * Ben Pimlott, Sunday Times *
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I The Era of Advance, 1945-1961 |
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2 Labour's High Noon, 1945-1947 |
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3 The Collectivist Retreat, 1948-1951 |
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4 The Conservative Compromise, 1951-1956 |
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5 The Zenith of One-Nation Toryism, 1957-1961 |
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II The Years of Retreat, 1961-1979 |
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6 The Stagnant Society, 1961-1964 |
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7 Labour Blown Off Course, 1964-1967 |
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8 Years of Hard Slog, 1968-1970 |
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9 The Heath Experiment, 1970-1974 |
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10 Challenge to Consensus, 1974-1976 |
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423 | (46) |
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11 The Years of Discontent, 1977-1979 |
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III Thatcherism and its Aftermath, 1979-2001 |
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513 | (154) |
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12 The Foundations of Thatcherism, 1979-1983 |
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13 High Noon For the New Right, 1983-1990 |
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552 | (47) |
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14 Fin de Steele: New Labour in Power, 1990-2001 |
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599 | (68) |
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IV The New Millennium, 2001-2020 |
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667 | (78) |
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15 Millennial Perspectives, 2001-2008 |
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16 From Crash to Brexit, 2008-2020 |
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701 | (44) |
| Select Bibliography |
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Kenneth O. Morgan is a working peer in the House of Lords and a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Contemporary British History, King's College London. From 1966 to 1989 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's; from 1989 to 1995 he was Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University, and also Senior Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, 1993-5. He has also been an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He is the author of many major works on British history including Wales in British Politics, 1868-1922; Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980; Labour in Power, 1945-1951; Consensus and Disunity: the Lloyd George Coalition Government, 1918-1922; The People's Peace: British History, 1945-1990; Modern Wales: Politics, Places and People; Callaghan: A Life; The Twentieth Century (A Very Short Intoduction). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1983 and became a life peer in 2000.
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