Transcript 1939 TO THE PRESENT

Reading and Writing Skills for
Students of Literature in English:
Postwar; Postmodern; Postcolonial
Enric Monforte
Jacqueline Hurtley
Bill Phillips
1939-2010
George VI’s death (1952)
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Elizabeth II (1952)
Photo by Cecil Beaton
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Governments since the war
1945-51 Labour
governments
(Clement Attlee)
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http://www.sww.w.szu.pl
1951-64 Conservative
governments (Winston
Churchill, Anthony Eden
and Harold Macmillan)
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http://www.proberte
ncyclopaedia.com
http://nndb.net
1964-70 Labour
governments (Harold
Wilson)
1970-74
Conservative
governments (Edward
Heath)
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1974-79 Labour governments (Harold
Wilson, James Callaghan)
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1979-97 Conservative governments
(Margaret Thatcher, John Major)
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mo.html
1997-2010 New Labour governments
(Tony Blair, Gordon Brown)
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255630380/
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ybetwin/betting/features/libdem.php?ssid=2
2010- Conservative/Liberal Democrat
government (David Cameron, Nick Clegg)
Second World War (1939-1945)
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U.S. cargo ship carrying ammunition explodes after being bombed
by German aircraft. Right, D-day landing (6 June 1944)
Winston Churchill
“When I am abroad, I
always make it a rule
never to criticize or
attack the
government of my
own country. I make
up for lost time when I
come home.”
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The Yalta Conference (1945)
Cold War
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ples/yalta.htm
San Francisco Conference (1945)
 To reach agreement on
an international
organization designed
to keep the peace in
the postwar world. The
most important
document was the
Charter of the United
Nations, adopted by
the conferees on 25
June 1945
End of the Second World War (8 May
1945)
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6 August / 9 August: atom
bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
http://www.hiroshima-remembered.com
The Welfare State (1945)
Social Policy in the
UK
"And when it gets
really cold, just
remember we're the
envy of Europe."
Cartoon by Bill McArthur
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The family as the
cornerstone of social
reconstruction
Beginnings of youth
culture: the ‘Teddy
boy’
The television age
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d.files.wordp
ress.com
The Empire
Britain loses its position as leading colonial
power:
1947 India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma
1948 State of Israel, Republic of Ireland
 1957 Ghana
‘Witch-hunt’ in the
USA led by senator
Joe McCarthy
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Chinese Revolution
led by Mao Tse-Tung
(1946-49)
Korean War (1950-53)
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http://www.archives.gov
Suez crisis (JulyOctober 1956)
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1960s
Lady Chatterley trial
(1960)
1967 Abortion Act,
Sexual Offences Act
decriminalising
homosexuality
Divorce Reform Act
(1969)
Equal Pay Act (1970)
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.uk/history/courses/Gend
er_Pathway.php
http://www.mikeboldt.com/art_historical.html
Mary Whitehouse’s ‘Clean-up TV’ campaign.
Below, with Mick Jagger (1964)
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27/000066329/
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k/jagger_whitehouse.html
Rise of youth culture and pop music: the
Beatles, the Rolling Stones and rock’n’roll
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rianorma.com
http://media.ph
otobucket.com
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
(1958)
Late 1960s: start of women’s liberation and gay
and lesbian liberation movements
Immigration
Late 1950s-mid 1960s: massive arrival of immigrants
from Commonwealth nations
First Race Relations Act (1965)
Second Race Relations Act (1968)
Immigration
National Front
founded by Enoch
Powell (1966)
http://www.
enochpowel
l.com
Out of England
‘The Troubles’
Re-emergence of the IRA (1969)
Scottish and Welsh nationalism
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belfast.org/northbelfast.ht
m
Left, a government attempt to stop a Catholic civil rights
demonstration turns into a riot, setting off 'the Troubles.'
Right, residents flee burning homes in Belfast.
The Empire
More colonies gain independence:
Cyprus, Nigeria (1960)
Tanzania, Republic of South Africa (1961)
Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda (1962)
Kenya (1963)
Malta, Zambia (1964)
Barbados, Guyana (1966)
Zimbabwe (1979)
Vietnam War (19561975)
Hippie movement
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420s.blogspot.co
m/
Paris, May 1968
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meline.htm
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1970s
Increasing industrial
tension
Miners’ strike (197374)
Youth culture:
skinheads and punks
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1.htm
Britain joins the EEC
(1973)
A new design of fifty
pence coin was
issued to
commemorate its
entry into the
European Economic
Community
http://www.coinofthey
ear.com/1973.php
Racial tensions
Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Opportunities
Commission (1975)
Third Race Relations Act, Commission for racial
equality (1976)
Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch
(1970)
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Northern Ireland
Derry’s ‘Bloody
Sunday’ (30 January
1972)
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http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/36161
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Northern Ireland Parliament suspended; direct
rule from London (1972)
IRA bombing campaign in Britain (1974)
Prevention of Terrorism Act (1974)
Referendum on devolution in Scotland and
Wales defeated (1979)
IRA bombs the
Parliament, injuring 11 people
(17 June 1974)
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1979
The ‘winter of
discontent’
May: Margaret
Thatcher comes to
power
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vents.files.wordpress.
com
1980s: Thatcherism
Miners’ strike (1984-85)
Privatization, ‘popular
capitalism’ and ‘enterprise
culture’
‘Post-industrialization’
http://lisweb.swan.ac.uk/swcc/photo/84strike/picket.htm
and the age of information technology (IT)
Right, miners picket outside Port Talbot Steel
Works, 3 April 1984
Thatcherism: end of Welfare State
Social Security Act (1986)
Housing Act (1980)
Education Reform Act (1988)
Polarization: North vs. South
Royal wedding of
Prince Charles and
Lady Diana Spencer,
29 July 1981
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wgsports.com
Death of Princess
Diana, 31 August
1997
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ess.com/2009/07/page/2
Falklands War
(1982): nostalgia
for Empire
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Urban / race riots
Bristol and Brighton (1980)
London and Liverpool (1981)
Birmingham (1985)
IRA bomb attacks in London (1982)
Anglo-Irish Agreement between London and
Dublin governments to promote peace in
Northern Ireland (1985)
Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
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1990s and beyond
First Gulf War (1990-91)
War in Bosnia (1992-95)
/
Srebrenica
massacre
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media.org/wiki/File:S
rebrenica_massacre
_memorial_gravesto
nes_2009_1.jpg
New Labour
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nanzas/articulo/articulo/239/tonyblair-gana-fortuna-por-propiedadfinanciada-por-contribuyentes/
Out of England
31
August
1994
Ceasefire announced
by IRA
Devolving assemblies
in Scotland (1997),
Wales (1997) and
Northern
Ireland
(Belfast agreement or
Good
Friday
Agreement, 1998)
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The new millennium
The Millennium
Dome, London
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9/11/2001, New York City
 ‘War on Terror’
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New Labour International
Politics
Iraq war
Azores, 16 March
2003
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end.org
http://i.dailymail.co.uk
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Second Battle of Fallujah,
Second Gulf War, 2004
 Second Gulf War or Iraq
War (2003)
 New forms of global
terrorism (11-M, 7/7)
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sworld.com
11-M, Madrid 2004
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7/7, London 2005
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 Globalisation
 Environmental crises
British Petroleum Oil Spill
in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010
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Changes in the monarchy
9 April 2005: Royal
wedding of Prince
Charles and Camilla
Parker Bowles,
Duchess of Cornwall
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May 2010: a new coalition
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30380/
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tting/features/lib-dem.php?ssid=2