post-war Britain

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Post-war Britain refers to the United Kingdom in the decades following World War II, marked by social change, economic reconstruction, the welfare state’s expansion, and shifting class and cultural attitudes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf era in United Kingdom history
historical period
characteristic changing class structure
economic reconstruction
expansion of the welfare state
growth of mass consumer culture
rise of multicultural society in Britain
social mobility
urban redevelopment
country United Kingdom
followed Britain during World War II
hasPart Abortion Act 1967
Attlee government
surface form: Attlee ministry

BBC television expansion
Beveridge Report implementation
British Invasion
British welfare state expansion
Butler education reforms
Butskellism
Callaghan government
Cold War
surface form: Cold War in the United Kingdom

Conservative governments of the 1950s
Education Act 1944
"Rivers of Blood" speech
surface form: Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech

European integration of the United Kingdom
Festival of Britain
Heath government
1945 United Kingdom general election
surface form: Labour landslide of 1945

Major government
Marshall Plan
surface form: Marshall Plan aid to the United Kingdom

National Health Service
National Health Service Act 1946
National Insurance Act 1946
New Labour project
surface form: New Labour era

British New Towns movement
surface form: New Towns movement

North–South divide in the United Kingdom
Notting Hill race riots
Race Relations Act 1965
Race Relations Act 1968
Race Relations Act 1976
Second-wave feminism in the United Kingdom
Suez Crisis
Swinging Sixties
Margaret Thatcher government
surface form: Thatcher governments

Thatcherism
The Troubles
surface form: Troubles in Northern Ireland

Wilson governments
Windrush generation
Winter of Discontent
abolition of National Service in the United Kingdom
abolition of the death penalty in the United Kingdom
austerity in the United Kingdom
comprehensive schools in the United Kingdom
consumer society in Britain
council housing in the United Kingdom
creation of the National Health Service by Aneurin Bevan
decline of British manufacturing
decline of the British Empire
decolonisation of the British Empire
deindustrialisation in the United Kingdom
end of rationing in the United Kingdom
entry of the United Kingdom into the European Communities
formation of the Commonwealth of Nations
formation of the National Health Service
grammar schools in the United Kingdom
immigration from South Asia to the United Kingdom
immigration from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom
legalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales
miners' strike of 1984–1985
popular music revolution in Britain
post-war consensus
post-war housing in the United Kingdom
post-war immigration to the United Kingdom
privatisation in the United Kingdom
race relations legislation in the United Kingdom
rise of Scottish nationalism
rise of Welsh nationalism
rise of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom
rise of television in the United Kingdom
rise of the service economy in the United Kingdom
rise of the welfare state in the United Kingdom
sexual revolution in the United Kingdom
social liberalisation in the United Kingdom
sterling crisis
youth subcultures in the United Kingdom
language English
locatedIn Europe
religion predominantly Christian society
startTime 1945

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Till Death Us Do Part setInPeriod post-war Britain
Disabled setting post-war Britain
Demob hasTheme post-war Britain
Lord Addison participatedIn post-war Britain
this entity surface form: British government after World War II