Postwar Britain

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Britain witnessed unprecedented change across the British Isles, with a dramatic rise in prosperity and living standards, as well as radical initiatives in health and welfare provision and in ______

education

A major driver of change has been a major growth in population, matched by rapidly rising expectations about ______

lifestyle

Demands for mobility (cars) and space (houses) have ensured the transfer of land from agriculture and natural landscape to roads and housing, with multiple consequences for the ______

environment

Furthermore, large-scale immigration, particularly from the West Indies and South Asia, but also from other areas such as Eastern Europe, has made the population ethnically far more diverse, with important ______ consequences

<p>cultural</p> Signup and view all the answers

The moral code that prevailed in 1945 broke down, a process formalised by legal ______ in the 1960s

<p>changes</p> Signup and view all the answers

[Blank] became legal in the 1960s, which was one of the legal changes that formalised the breakdown of the moral code that prevailed in 1945

<p>abortion</p> Signup and view all the answers

[Blank] became legal in the 1960s, which was one of the legal changes that formalised the breakdown of the moral code that prevailed in 1945

<p>homosexuality</p> Signup and view all the answers

Capital punishment was ______ in the 1960s, which was one of the legal changes that formalised the breakdown of the moral code that prevailed in 1945

<p>abolished</p> Signup and view all the answers

Postwar Britain witnessed the decline of the authority of age and experience and, in their place, came an emphasis on youth and novelty, a process encouraged by the fashion and ______ industries

<p>popular music</p> Signup and view all the answers

The development of a distinct youth culture demonstrated that the generation which came off age in the early 1960s often wanted a very different society from that of their ______

<p>parents</p> Signup and view all the answers

Social and cultural change has also reflected the extent to which the population has become more individualistic and less ______

<p>deferential</p> Signup and view all the answers

Large-scale immigration has made the population ethnically far more diverse, with important cultural ______

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