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When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the 1970s (2009) 576pp excerpt and textsearch; Bernstein, G. (2004). The Myth of Decline: The Rise of Britain Since 1945. London: Harvill Press. ISBN 978-1-84413-102-0. Bew, John. Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain (2017). Butler, David (1989). British General Elections since 1945. London ...
After decades of low immigration, new arrivals became a significant factor after 1945. In the decades after the Second World War immigration was greatest from the former British Empire, especially Ireland, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Caribbean, South Africa, Kenya and Hong Kong. [152]
Demobbed: coming home after the Second World War (Yale University Press, 2009) in UK. Broad, Roger. The Radical General: Sir Ronald Adam and Britain's New Model Army 1941-46 (The History Press, 2010), ISBN 978-0-7524-6559-3; Summers, Julie. Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War (Simon and Schuster ...
For general overviews of British politics since 1945, see: Post-war Britain (1945–1979) Political history of the United Kingdom (1979–present) While coverage of British social history over the same period can be found below: Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979) Social history of the United Kingdom (1979–present)
The code name was now reused instead for a second plan, which was a defensive scenario by which the British were to defend against a Soviet drive towards the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean after the withdrawal of the American forces from the Continent. When the Labour Party acquired power by the 1945 general election, it ignored the draft plan.
Historian David Olusoga said the survey captured ‘one of the most dramatic and dangerous moments in history’.
2 January – General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference at Zonhoven describing his contribution to the Battle of the Bulge.; 23 January – announcement of the establishment of the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC; predecessor of 3i) by the Bank of England and the major commercial banks to provide long-term investment funding for small and medium-sized enterprises.
At the end of the Second World War, substantial groups of people from Soviet-controlled territories settled in the UK, particularly Poles and Ukrainians. The UK recruited displaced people as so-called European Volunteer Workers in order to provide labour to industries that were required in order to aid economic recovery after the war. [20]