Britain Since 1945 A Political History 5th Edition by David Childs ISBN 978-0415248037 0415248035
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ISBN 10: 0415248035
ISBN 13: 978-0415248037
Author: David Childs
This is the fifth edition of what has become the standard textbook on contemporary British political history since the end of the Second World War.
The new and improved edition of this important book brings the picture to the present by including the following additions:
* a new chapter on Tony Blair’s administration including analysis of the London Mayoral elections
* new material on john Major in the light of the memoirs of Major, Norman Lamont and new work on the Labour party at this time
* updated statistical data and tables
* in-depth coverage of the 1990s and the start of the twenty-first century.
This authoritative chronological survey discusses domestic policy and politics in particular, but also covers external and international relations and will doubtless be a major part of the course reading of any student of British history since 1945.
Table of contents:
1 SUMMER VICTORIES
Japanese to fight resolutely’
Churchill’s defeat
‘Incredulity’ as Conservatives lose
Attlee’s team: ‘These fine men’
Attlee: ‘One of the best Chairmen’
Britain: ‘it won’t be easy’
Notes
2 ACHIEVEMENT AND AUSTERITY UNDER
ATTLEE, 1945-51
Britain being ‘flayed to the bone’
American loan: ‘This was a disaster’
Public ownership: I’ve waited all my life for this moment’
National Insurance: a ‘paltry sum’
The NHS: ‘vested interests lined up’
Housing and education: ‘hands were tied’
Constitutional and trade union reform
RAF: ‘incitement to mutiny’
Conservatives get ‘best salesman’
Election 1950: ‘real detestation of Labour’
Notes
3 COLONIAL RETREAT AND COLD WAR
Paul Robeson congratulates
Indian Independence: struck me with a riding whip’
Palestine: Arabs be encouraged to move out
Colonies: ‘under the guidance of the Mother Country War in Malaya
Cold War: ‘magnates who financed Hitler’ Marshall Aid and NATO
Korea: as democratic as Caligula’s Rome
Iran: proud and subtle a people
Election 51: after exhausting and undignified process
Decline of socialism: some form of Gestapo
Notes
4 CHURCHILL AND EDEN, 1951-57
‘Our future little better than a German satellite
Churchill’s Cabinet: reminiscent of bygone times
The Bevanitex complacent assumptions”
Eden high order of intelligence
1955: first of the electioneering Budgets
Gaitskell’s great talent and firm loyalty
ITV: For the sake of our children… resist it
Cinema and the press
Europe: Much ado about nothing
Suez 1956: That does amount to a lie
Notes
5 MACMILLAN AND THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY, 1957-64
Macmillan: ‘more cousins and less opposition”
Macmillan: capable of being ruthless
Cyprus ‘no question of any change
Economy: like bicycling along a tightrope
Nonsense that our trade unions… are irresponsible Most of our people have never had it so good
Russians in space: frivolity of the British
Kenya: Hola camp sub-human individuals
Africa: The wind of change is blowing
Kuwait expensive to stay; hard to get out
Aden: Tolpuddle martyrs of the Middle East Socialism that dares not is bound to fail
H-bomb: naked into the conference chamber
New Left: a sense of outrage
Labour’s class image
Pacifists, unilateralists and fellow-travellers
EEC: ‘the end of a thousand years of history
EEC: No three cheers for British entry’
Economic troubles: the guiding light
Mac the knife’s July massacre
Speculators holding the community to ransom’
Profumo: tawdry cynicism
Home premier: “bad joke of democracy”
Britain: ‘relegated to third class?
Children: if they believe they’re second class The public schools: ‘a divisive factor
Wilson: ‘Let’s GO with Labour
Kennedy shot: I didn’t believe it
Election 64 things might start slipping”
Notes
6 WILSON’S ATTEMPTS AT REFORM, 1964-70
the news from Moscow
Wilson: ‘a modern counterpart of Richard III
Civil Service: excessive power
Labour treated as ships passing in the night”
Sterling: a symbol of national pride
Brown at the DEA
Defence: They want us with them
Technology: Britain’s ‘inability to stay in the big league
Rhodesia: ‘her conscience has haunted him
Heath replaces Home: ‘no gratitude in politics
Wilson’s 1966 victory: timing was faultless
Labour Government is really finished
Crisis, 1966: the frailty of a Chancellor’s hopes
IRC: ‘a kind of government-sponsored merchant bank
Rhodesia: ’round and round in circles
War in Nigeria
Anguilla: mock-gunboat diplomacy
EEC: get us in, so we can take the lead
Devaluation: the money in our pockets
Industrial relations: ‘committing political suicide?
Cutting Defence: ‘we were all dogs’ A post-midnight Privy Council
Student protests: ‘nasty touch of authoritarianism
Immigration this distasteful necessity
Powell: a nation heaping up its own funeral pyre
Northern Ireland: Blatant discrimination”
Commons spellbound
Lords frustrate elected Government
CONTENTS
David Steel: exceptional courage
Election 70: exquisite June morning
Notes
7 THE UNEXPECTED PRIME MINISTER:
EDWARD HEATH, 1970-74
Downing Street: The shutters were fastened
Restrict provision to where it is more efficient
Industrial relations: “all hell will be let loose’
Local government reform: expense not adequately faced
Corruption: ‘no option but to resign
NHS: Joseph’s ‘administrative labyrinth
Northern Ireland severe discrimination
Immigration: only in… special cases
EEC: something to get us going again
Oil crisis: ‘Danegeld is Danegeld
Miners strike: it looked as if we were not interested
Election 74: Powell vote Labour
Notes
8 LABOUR’S MINORITY GOVERNMENTS, 1974-79
Wilson’s Cabinet: “buoyant atmosphere
Northern Ireland: considering total withdrawal
Election October 74: fighting like hell’
Thatcher: shattering blow to… Conservative establishment
A decade of women’s liberation
EEC referendum: Wilson fought like a tiger
Industry: The gap gets wider each year
Wilson goes: astonished Cabiner
Steel: quiet exterior determined man
Crime violence a natural aspect of society
Northern Ireland: hope to a tragic community
Bullock: ‘more thoughtful management
Pay policy: ankle-deep in muck and slime
Devolution referenda: the valleys were deaf
Election 79: ‘cradled a calf in my arms
Notes
9 THATCHER’S ‘REVOLUTION, 1979-83
Thatcher’s Cabinet: no experience of running a whelk-stall
Thatcherism: money opens astonishing range of choice
Budget 79: ‘an enormous shock
Thatcher: I don’t like him
Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: the large gamble
Thatcher: loathed the trade unions”
Labour: ‘an angry conference
SDP: ‘the choice… will be deeply painful
Thatcher: 1 too became extremely angry
Why Britain Burns
The Falklands: picking up the remains in plastic bags
Election 83: longest suicide note in history
Notes
10 THATCHER: TRIUMPH AND FALL, 1983-90
Grenada: government humiliated
Scargill: northern chubland humour and popularist Socialism’ MIS ‘controls the hiring and firing of BBC staff
1985: government by slogan
The Anglo-Irish Agreement: treachery
Privatization: selling off the family silver
Confusion on defence Thatcher’s hat-trick
BBC: ‘lack of balance?
Greed is good
‘Black Monday 1987
Rushdie: prisoner in his own country’
Football hooliganism
Prison riots convictions flawed”
Educational reform: ‘lecturers’ pay… buys less
NHS: ‘terminally ill?
IRA: ‘those killed… not carrying arms
Goodbye SDP
Disaster of the poll-tax
Some identikit European personality
Thatcher’s last Cabinet
Thatcher’s fall: Few spared a moment to regret
Notes
11 IN MAJOR’S CLASSLESS SOCIETY, 1990-96
John Major: Cabinet no longer…confrontation War in the Gulf
Maastricht: Britain at the heart of Europe?
Election 1992: Major defies the odds
Euro 94: Labour’s new hopes
Literature: over 8,000 novels
It’s all over for England
Clinton in Ireland: ‘making a miracle
Mad cows and Englishmen
Conservatives war: put up or shut up
Bosnia: “Hell’s kitchen was cooking
Changing Britain
Lottery fever
The ‘sleaze factor
Monarchy in crisis
Farewell to Castlemartin
Former ministers: Shamelessness of this more….
New Labour: Pledge to Rich From inequitable to inhuman’
Election 97: Deep national impatience
Results: A tidal wave over the Conservatives
Notes
12 BLAIR’S NEW LABOUR EXPERIMENT
Blair’s Cabinet
Hague: Conservative leader Liberal Democrats: Ashdown goes Decline of political interest? Coming out
Taskforces: A much wider source of advice? Devolution and constitutional change
The Lords reformed
Not in Euroland
Conflict in Kosото
Navy: Overcommitted… and undermanned” SAS train anti-fraud officers
Long negotiations in Northern Ireland
Universities: Increasingly Primary education global
NHS: Steadily to deteriorate? Wealth and social justice Privatization and safety In foreign hands Racism in police
Celebrating the millennium
Women 2000 Lonely Britain?
Conservative Party problems continue
Blair cult
London: Dangerous buffoon’ beats party machines
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