Seeking a role: the United Kingdom, 1951 - 1970

This is a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of post-war Britain in the 1950s and 60s. It covers everything from international relations to family life, the countryside to manufacturing, religion to race, and cultural life to political structures. By 1970 the consumer society had supplanted postwar...

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Main Author: Harrison, Brian Howard 1937- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a.] Clarendon Press 2009
Edition:1. publ.
Series:The new Oxford history of England [10]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199605132.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199605132.001.0001
Summary:This is a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of post-war Britain in the 1950s and 60s. It covers everything from international relations to family life, the countryside to manufacturing, religion to race, and cultural life to political structures. By 1970 the consumer society had supplanted postwar austerity, the socialist vision was fading, and 'the sixties' had introduced new and even exotic themes and values. Having lost an empire, Britain was still resourcefully seeking a role: it had yet to find it.
Item Description:Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 658 S.) Ill.
ISBN:9780191804618
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199605132.001.0001