Reassessing Britain’s ‘post-war consensus’: the politics of reason 1945–1979

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Reassessing Britain’s ‘post-war consensus’: the politics of reason 1945–1979

Since the late-1970s, scholars have been engaged in a vibrant debate about the nature of post-war British politics. While some writers have suggested that the three decades that succeeded the Second World War witnessed a bi-partisan consensus on key policy questions, others have argued that it was c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Blackburn, Dean
Format:	Article
Published:	Palgrave Macmillan 2017
Subjects:	Labour Conservative ideology Post-war Britain
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42017/

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