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In the year that marks the 50th anniversary of Labour's 1945 landslide victory and the development of a new invigorated Labour Party under Tony Blair, this collection of essays looks at how the policies of the 1945 government and the following Labour administrations affected cultural life in Britain. The contributors cover a wide range of issues: British cinema of the period, working-class consumer culture, the founding of the NHS, Labour's attempts to house and educate the heroes, literary and artistic culture, post-war feminist activism and the response of the right to their crushing defeat.

Labour's Promised Land?: Culture and Society in Labour Britain, 1945-51

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In the year that marks the 50th anniversary of Labour's 1945 landslide victory and the development of a new invigorated... Read more

    Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
    Publication Date: 28/03/1995
    ISBN13: 9780853158110, 978-0853158110
    ISBN10: 853158118

    Number of Pages: 224

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    In the year that marks the 50th anniversary of Labour's 1945 landslide victory and the development of a new invigorated Labour Party under Tony Blair, this collection of essays looks at how the policies of the 1945 government and the following Labour administrations affected cultural life in Britain. The contributors cover a wide range of issues: British cinema of the period, working-class consumer culture, the founding of the NHS, Labour's attempts to house and educate the heroes, literary and artistic culture, post-war feminist activism and the response of the right to their crushing defeat.

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