Introduction
Part I: The Aftermath 1945-1957
1: The Gentleman in Whitehall
2: Fair Shares for All
3: Victorian Values
4: When British Was Best
Part II: The Quest for Modernity 1957-1974
5: Managing the New Britain
6: Great Expectations
7: The Liberal Hour
8: National Identities
Part III: Transformations 1974-1990
9: Mrs Thatcher's Revolution
10: The Sea Change
11: The Permissive Age
12: Multicultural Britain
Epilogue
Paul Addison taught history at the University of Edinburgh from
1967 to 1996 and was Director of the Centre for Second World War
Studies (now the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars) at
Edinburgh from 1996 to 2005. Among his other publications are The
Road to 1945: British Politics and the Second World War (1975), Now
The War Is Over: A Social History of Britain from 1945 to 1951
(1985), Churchill: The Unexpected Hero (2003) and
A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939-2000 (2005), which he
edited with Harriet Jones. A former Visiting Fellow of All Souls,
he is currently an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the Study of
the Two World Wars.
For any student of Britain in the modern era this is, quite simply,
a must-have book.
*British Scholar website*
This is an outstanding and immenley readable book, light in touch,
wide in breadth and with a clear case.
*Robert Giddings, Tribune*
Addison's book is clear enough for a general reader, but also has
enough meat for an academic audience.
*Joe Moran, History Today*
For someone new to postwar history, this offers one of the best
single-volume accounts: clear, authoritative and wide-ranging.
*Joe Moran, History Today*
A balanced, authoritative, deeply civilised survey.
*David Kynaston, Financial Times*
Few of the pages...go by without an eye-opening factoid to
enlighten or a hitherto unheard anecdote to amuse.
*Christopher Bray, The Independent on Sunday*
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