Language of instruction
French, English
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Training officer(s)
Suzanne Bray
Présentation
Presentation
Domestic Politics and Social Issues in Great Britain 1945 – 1991
- 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
-
-
-
-
-
-
- The “Honest to God” debate / rise of evangelicalism
- The media / scandal / the invasion of privacy
- Homosexuality / abortion / censorship, etc.
-
-
-
-
-
Britain as a pluralistic society
Modalités
Evaluation
Ressources
Bibliography
|| 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>