Postwar Britain: Identity, Economy, and Politics - Prof. Stone, Diapositivas de Cultura Inglesa

¡Descarga Postwar Britain: Identity, Economy, and Politics - Prof. Stone y más Diapositivas en PDF de Cultura Inglesa solo en Docsity! Postwar Britain Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a ICE ATI ESARAI AE II AE A OA CNN EN Majesty's Government is now attempting, wisely in my TSE A For a taste of public discourses on British identity in the period, watch the 25-minute documentary Family Portrait - A Film on the Them e of the Festival of Britain 1951 And the pound was no longer the currenc y of referen ce Until 1954: Rationi ng to Maximi se Exports (the war debt was paid in dollars) The British “have no need to exorcise history” –Jean Monnet • “In the absence of Britain (and, in Britain’s wake, the Scandinavians) power within the ‘little Europe’ of the West fell by default to France. The French duly did what the British might have done in other circumstances and made ‘Europe’ in their own image, eventually casting its institutions and policies in a mould familiar from French precedent.” (Tony Judt, Postwar) Between Rationing and Thatcher But things broke down in the 1970s and early 1980s. Cf Withnail and I (set in 1969) Four factors -The oil shock (1973) -Sterling crisis (1976)IMF loan and - intervention (deep public spending cuts) -Baby boom cohort moving into retirement -Falling birth rates A ARANA FAN l Mio The three-day week 1978- 1979: The Winter of Disconte nt • Lorry drivers (petrol tankers) • Rail • Nursing • Ambulance drivers • Grave diggers • Waste collectors Thatcher in Power Council house purchases Properties sold thr UK house prices e Average price, thousands, £ 78 79 1980 81 82 83 5 j 87 88 89 1990 91 92 83 source: Natiormide Bleed the Patient Public spending After Margaret Thatcher was elected public spending went up before a huge fall EMBED FULLSCREEN  Days lost per month industr 12 000 = o = 5 a 5 5 ha a [=] a ha a 5 a 2011 Feb-76 Jan-79 Dec-81 Dec-84 Dec-87 Dec-90 Dec-93 Dec-96 2000 Jun 2004 Apr Oct NS  % of population below 60% median income SOURCE: IFS GETTHE DATA EMBED FULLSCREEN The Miner’s Strike, 1984- 1985 The Big Bang • Where’s Sheldon? Not a traditional conservative EIA RL ALANAAANUUOAVA  Case Study: UD Beautiful Laundrette ¡ E a tad a a y ' ; y A le bi] Y sabio 7 K Hr , z > EN Mo A Ls NN S » OS | »”, MY BEAUTÍF  Case Study: Loadsamo ney TAIANA RADA ANUIES O e Skit: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgUuYUOGvVZM