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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 .
Historian Graham Goodlad calls for taking a longer perspective. He argues that there were significant advances in transport, healthcare, and higher education. It is unrealistic to expect that Britain could have continued as a world power after the huge expense of the Second World War, and the independence of India and other colonies.
Foreign born population percentage over time in England and Wales from 1851 to 2021. The Act abolished the distinction between Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth entrants. The Conservative government nevertheless allowed, amid much controversy, the immigration of 27,000 individuals displaced from Uganda after the coup d'état led by Idi Amin in ...
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)
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 ...
Historian David Olusoga said the survey captured ‘one of the most dramatic and dangerous moments in history’.
From Anger to Apathy: The Story of Politics, Society and Popular Culture in Britain since 1975(2008) excerpt; Marr, Andrew. A History of Modern Britain (2009); covers 1945–2005. Marr, Andrew. Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged (2021), covers 1945 to 2020.. Sampson, Anthony. The Essential Anatomy of Britain: Democracy in Crisis (1992 ...
Attlee with King George VI after Labour's landslide election victory. 26 July – general election results are announced; Winston Churchill resigns as prime minister after his Conservative Party is soundly defeated by the Labour Party, who have a majority of 146 seats, and Clement Attlee becomes the new prime minister. However, Churchill will ...