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)
– J.M. Keynes & Co
– Sterling party / deflation / devaluation
– From rationing to the affluent society and back to austerity
– The growth of an underclass
– 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 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.
