Britain in Transition
Britain in Transition

Author: Alfred F. Havighurst

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1985-08

Total Pages: 714

ISBN-13: 9780226319711

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This new edition extends and brings up to date the story of political, economic, and social change among the British. An entirely new chapter covers the Thatcher years, discussing such events as the Falkland Island crisis and the General Election of 1983. Other sections have been revised to reflect information only recently available. Throughout, Havighurst has incorporated material from official documents, monographs, biographies, articles, and the press. His fascinating narrative fully captures the ongoing importance of change itself in shaping the character of Britain.

Britain in the Twentieth Century
Britain in the Twentieth Century

Author: Ian J. Cawood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1136406816

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Britain in the Twentieth Century is a new approach to teaching and learning twentieth century British history at A level. It meets the needs of teachers and students studying for today's revised AS and A2 exams. In a unique style, Britain in the Twentieth Century focuses on the key topics within the period. Each topic is then comprehensively explored to provide background, essay writing advice and examples, source work and historical skills. From 1900 to the new millennium, the key topics featured include: * Britain in a new century, 1900-1914 * the First World War and its impact * inter-war domestic problems * British foreign policy, 1919-1939 * Britain and the Second World War * social and economic change, 1945-1979.

Modern England 1901-1970
Modern England 1901-1970

Author: Alfred Havighurst

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1976-05-13

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780521209410

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This is a comprehensive bibliography of all printed books, articles and standard texts on England, Ireland, Scotland, the Commonwealth and the colonies up to 1970. This handbook will serve as a useful guide to scholars, teachers at all levels, advanced students, and the general reader interested in examining the period in some depth.

Twentieth-Century British Political Facts, 1900-2000
Twentieth-Century British Political Facts, 1900-2000

Author: D. Butler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 134962733X

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Twentieth-Century British Political Facts is the definitive record of the who, the what and the when of British political history in the 1900s, providing reliable information which could not otherwise be found without many hours of digging in a library. Refined and updated since the seventh edition, this unique work has become as standard reference book for scholars, journalists, politicians, civil servants, students and all readers with an interest in political history.

British Social Welfare in the Twentieth Century
British Social Welfare in the Twentieth Century

Author: Robert Page

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1999-03-31

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1349273988

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This major thematic and historical overview provides a clear guide to key welfare practices and developments in the public, private, voluntary and informal welfare sectors in twentieth-century Britain, outlining the dominant ideas about welfare in the period in question. As such, it offers an effective bridge between historical and contemporary concerns, drawing out some of the more rarely articulated premises of courses in the history of social policy and illuminating the social, political and economic dimensions of its subject.

Modern England, 1901-1984
Modern England, 1901-1984

Author: Alfred F. Havighurst

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-07-08

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9780521522472

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The most comprehensive bibliography of printed books, articles, and standard texts on twentieth-century England.