No Turning Back: The Peaceful Revolutions of Post-War Britain PDF
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No Turning Back This page intentionally left blank No Turning Back The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain PAUL ADDISON 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Paul Addison 2010 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Library of Congress Control Number: 2010925606 Typeset by SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Clays Ltd., St Ives plc ISBN 978–0–19–219267–7 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 For Rosy This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements My thanks are due fi rst of all to the editorial staff of Oxford University Press for the patient support and encouragement they have given to a laggardly author. I am grateful in particular to Catherine Clarke, Luciana O’Flaherty, and Matthew Cotton for constructive criticism and advice. I have had the good fortune of knowing that I could rely at all times on the guidance and friendship of my agent, Bruce Hunter of David Higham Associates. Special thanks are also due to Mr John Gilmour, Professor Keith Robbins, and Professor Peter Hennessy, for reading and commenting on a draft of the book. Without their inter- vention it would have many more faults than it does, but they are not in any way responsible for the faults that remain. I am very grateful to Zoe Spilberg for picture research, to Connie Roberston for copyright research and clearances, and to Susan Beer for copy-editing. In the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the Univer- sity of Edinburgh, and its predecessor the Department of History, I have enjoyed the best of historical company for the better part of a lifetime, and I must ask colleagues and former students to forgive me if I do not express my gratitude to them all individually: the list would certainly be a long one. In recent years I have had a new academic home at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars, and although this is not a book about war it would be incomplete without a warm word of thanks to colleagues with whom it has been a pleasure to work: Professor Jim McMillan, Dr Jeremy Crang, Dr David Stafford, and Ms Yvonne McEwen. My greatest debt, as ever, is to my wife Rosy, my sons James and Michael, and their two grannies, Cath and Pauline. Paul Addison University of Edinburgh Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars February 2010 This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations x List of Graphs and Maps xii Introduction 1 Part I The Aftermath of War 1945–1957 1. The Gentleman in Whitehall 7 2. Fair Shares for All 51 3. Victorian Values 76 4. When British Was Best 102 Part II The Quest for Modernity 1957–1974 5. Managing the New Britain 133 6. Great Expectations 168 7. The Liberal Hour 196 8. National Identities 222 Part III Transformations 1974–1997 9. Mrs Thatcher’s Revolution 259 10. Haves and Have-Nots 315 11. The Permissive Age 341 12. Uncharted Waters 364 The Long View 403 Notes 411 Further Reading 435 Copyright Acknowledgements 437 Index 439
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