1. Conflict and Consensus Britain 1945-1990 Attlee MacMillanWilsonHeath CallaghanThatcher

2. Expectations and Rules 1.The school and classroom rules –Mobile phones in basket –Come prepared and on time –Only water on desks 2.Contribute to lessons 3.Complete all work to the best of your ability - presentation 4.ASK if you don’t understand 5.Respect other people’s right to an opinion 6.Catch up on all missed work without being asked – check Moodle if you are absent!

3. Homework Recommended homework for AS history students is 5 hours per week. Homework assignments must be written down at the end of each lesson. All homework will be completed to the best of your ability and handed in on time. Please make sure that you complete your assignment on a paper that can be handed in, not in your notebooks. I will not believe you if you tell me you have handed in you work and the office lost it! Make your own life easier and do your homework on time, the first time! Homework policy…

4. Moodle Check Moodle for all homework and extra resources If you miss a class make sure that you catch up using Moodle Use the resources page – it’s a work in progress but is there to help you develop a better understanding of the subject as well as revision and exam preparation. –Your ideas and suggestions? –Forums and discussions?

5. Organisation The more organised your notes, the easier it will be to revise and the better you will do in exams! If you miss a lesson, make sure you get any missed notes and hand outs left in the classroom or Moodle.

6. Things you need do: You must start to keep the following notes: A timeline –Start 1945….. A glossary of key words and acronyms –E.g. austerity, Beveridge Report, Butskellism A list of key people and why they are important I promise that this will make your life a lot easier later on!!

7. British Prime Ministers Clement Attlee 1945 – 1951 Labour Winston Churchill 1951 – 1955 Cons Sir Anthony Eden 1955 – 1957 Cons Harold Macmillan 1957 – 1963 Cons Alec Douglas-Home 1963 – 1964 Cons Harold Wilson 1964 – 1970 Labour Edward Heath 1970 – 1974 Cons Harold Wilson 1974 – 1976 Labour James Callaghan 1976 – 1979 Labour Margaret Thatcher 1979 – 1990 Cons

8. The Content 1.The Labour election victory of 1945: reasons for it and key features of domestic policy of Labour governments of 1945- 51; extent to which this was ‘an age of austerity’. 2. The Conservative governments of 1951-64: extent of continuity with Labour objectives; key features of domestic policy (economic management, housing, unemployment); rising living standards. 3. Labour and Conservative governments, 1964-79: reasons for growing domestic problems (inflation, wages policy, relations with trade unions). 4. The Conservative election victory of 1979: reasons for it and key features of the domestic policy of Thatcher governments; domestic achievements; reasons why the Thatcher era was controversial; reasons for her fall in 1990.

9. The Exam 1 hour 20 minutes You have to answer one compulsory question based on 3 sources, worth 20 marks. No own knowledge needed. Source analysis is the key! Then you pick another question based on 3 sources, worth 40 marks. Mixture of source analysis and own knowledge.

10. Important stuff: 1.You could be asked about roles and importance as prime ministers of Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher. 2.Questions will not be set which focus exclusively on foreign policy, although students should have knowledge of how foreign policy impacted on the fortunes of the two main political parties over the Suez crisis 1956-7 and over Britain’s involvement with the European Economic Community (including the EU)1957-90. 3.You could be asked about themes e.g. the themes of welfare, housing, education and the handling of the economy can be traced throughout the period 1945-90.

11. Election results Excellent website: http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/u ktable.htm http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/u ktable.htm Moodle Resources: http://www.hullsvle.ch/moodle/course/view.p hp?id=175 Andrew Marr: BBC Documentaries

12. Basics about Britain 1945-1990 What do you know about British politics and political parties? How did the Second World War affect Britain? Especially the political parties. Are you aware of any significant events in Britain in this time period? TASK: In small groups, make a mind map of everything you know about Britain between 1945-90

13. Britain in 1945 What problems can you imagine were facing London in 1945?

14. A lost world Coal, Steel and Ship building werevital British Industries – depressed during the war but recoverred by 1945 ½ millions members of National Miners Union Large textile factories in the north Northern England, Wales and Scotland still associated with heavy industry Transport based on steam trains – no electric engines or motorways yet

15. Class-consciousness In 1945 British people were very conscious of class and many traits were very visible. TASK: in groups read the information on pages 3-5 and make a lists of the traits associated with your allocated class of society; –Working class –Middle Class –Upper Class

16. The Working Class Most married women stayed home «womens place is in the home» Foreign holidays were rare Entertainment mainly from the radio, newspapers like the Daily Mirror and Daily Express Taxes on alcohol meant alcohol consumption had dropeed Sport a national obsession

17. The Middle Class White shirt and a bowler hat or trilby rather than flat cap Cars, telephones and bank account Numbers of domestic staff were declining but increase in labour saving devices Detached or semi-detached houses Newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph of Daily Mail

18. The Upper Class Public School Education Imposing house or estate Membership of a London club Servants

19. Features of English life… BELL TASK: 1.Read source E on page 5, what does this tell you about life in England? 2.Does it make a difference that the poem was written during the war?

20. Education & Church In the 1930s most children left school at 14 Only 14% attended secondary school Half of the 14% paid fees, even to State Grammar Schools – who do you think went to these schools? 3% went to Public School (confusingly, this means private) Church still had a strong influence in Britian, a center for social activities

21. British Values What is a value system? What are some Swiss values? 1.Communal and collective living: e.g. public transport, cinema, shared living space 2.Clear moral codes: e.g. abortion illegal, no pregnancy outside of marriage, censorship of sexual material in theater and literature 3.Press censorship in reporting the lives of the rich and famous: affairs and scandals stayed private 4.Society more repressed but people ‘decent’ and law abiding: snobbery and rivalries, but horror of excessive violence and extremism

22. Impact of WWII United States products like trucks and tractors helped to modernise Britain and increased food production The war seen as «Britain’s finest hour» Increased power of the state during war time, also used for domestic change, e.g. 1944 Butler Education Act and the Beveridge Report Britain emerged from war as a great world power, but with a weakened economy at home: huge spending binge = economic hangover!

23. TASK: Historians have different opinions about the effect of WWII on Britain. In the first 20 years after the war they considered it positive experience, however, by the 1970s some historians called it a disaster! Read source M on page 15 and sources N & O on page 16 and make a note of the three different opinions about the consequences of WWII for Britain. Why might the authors of these sources see the legacy of WWII in such different ways?