Social change Flashcards
1
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Deference in the interwar period
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YES
- sidelining of the aristocracy and the rise of MC values with the loss of political control e.g. Lord Curzon not becoming PM
- 1936 abdication crisis showed that GB public were now taking ‘ownership’ of the royal family– many backed the king Edward VIII in his relationship.
NO
- class system still rmeained- top-down policies esp in housing
- BBC only RP presenters were allowed this meant no regional accents as they were considered uneducated.
- GS and Jarrow
- Abdication crisis- monarchy secure
2
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Deference in post war period
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YES
- universalism
- national service ‘squadie culture’- WC people given more opp in army
- films: Rogder Morre and Micheal Cain IPCRESS FILE
- > 1950’s were proletarinisation of culture e.g. Wilson attacks Humes aristrocratic background, Profumo affair, BEatles, Private Eye.
NO
- BBC still dominated by RP accents e.g. David attenbourogh
- Attitudes: Tories still dominated, MacMillan, Hume and Churchill were all of Aristocratic background.
- Monarchy: coronation 1953
3
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Housing Act 1930
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- targeted at reducing the post-war housing shortage, local councils began to tackle the problem of its existing slum housing.
- The Housing Act of 1930 encouraged mass slum clearance and councils set to work to demolish poor quality housing and replace with new build.
- Using powers available under the Act to acquire and demolish privately owned properties, slum clearance schemes were put into action across the country.
- 1933 focus on worst slum clearance
- The city of Bristol had calculated they had 25,000 people living in houses unfit for human habitation and proposed the replacement of 5,000 unfit dwellings.
4
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Addison Act 1919
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- seen as a watershed in the provision of corporation (council) housing.
- Councils began to plan their post-war housing programmes.
- Housing Committees were set up, working largely from recommendations from central government’s advisory committee
- The subsidy arrangements shared the costs of this new housing between the tenants, local rate payers and the Treasury.
- Councils in areas of high housing need could apply for these subsidies.
- The London County Council also raised money through selling London housing bonds which promised investors a 6% return and raised £4 million during the 1920s.
