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