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A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present (1994) 608pp; Gregg, Pauline. A Social and Economic History of Britain: 1760–1950 (1950) online; Harrison, Brian (2009). Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951—1970. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-160678-6. major survey with emphasis social history
A group of Conservative politicians publishes the tract One Nation: a Tory approach to social policy. [2] November – An attempt to hold the Second World Peace Congress at Sheffield City Hall is thwarted by the British authorities preventing many international delegates from entering the country [2] and it is relocated to Warsaw. [30]
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1969. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles. For narratives about this time period, see Post-war Britain (1945–1979), Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979),
Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940: The Politics of Method (Oxford UP, 2010) Sims, Paul David. "The Development of Environmental Politics in Inter-War and Post-War Britain" (PhD Dissertation, Queen Mary University of London, 2016) online ; Bibliography of secondary sources, PP 312–26.
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The thesis of post-war consensus was most fully developed by Paul Addison. [5] The basic argument is that in the 1930s Liberal intellectuals led by John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge developed a series of plans that became especially attractive as the wartime government promised a much better post-war Britain and saw the need to engage every sector of society.
The New Left focused on social activists and their approach to organization, convinced that they could be the source for a better kind of social revolution. The New Left in the United States also included anarchist, countercultural , and hippie -related radical groups such as the Yippies (who were led by Abbie Hoffman ), the Diggers , [ 32 ] Up ...
The 1950 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 23 February 1950. It was the first election to be held after the abolition of plural voting and university constituencies in addition to a reorganization of constituencies by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 .