Britain in the 20th Century: The Great War and its Consequences - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

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The war saw a transformation of politics at both elite and popular level. This led to the Liberals being replaced by Labour as the main party of the Left. The last purely Liberal government came to an end in 1915. The inter-war leaders, Stanley Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald, sought to continue the mission of liberalism by civilizing the state.
Yet Britain's industrial structure remained geared to the past rather than the future, and the inter-war years were marked by the chronic and seemingly insoluble problem of mass unemployment.
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23 авг 2011

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Комментарии : 6

@marinabrewis8472 8 лет назад

Brilliant lecture !

@MatthewMcVeagh 9 лет назад

Not much on the war itself.

@Nounismisation 6 лет назад

I meant that the title of the video or lecture is wrong - not much on the war, but a lot on what happened afterwards. But I'm interested in your comment about the Churcillian BS. Could you explain a bit please?

@robertewing3114 3 года назад

@@Nounismisation Indeed BS, the interest in Winston as usual from academics, they quote him, you would learn something if they quoted Chamberlain as much.

@jack28aug 8 лет назад

His concentration on party politics is a misdirection. Our democracy has always depended on a horizontal swing of left and right parties. This means that if all political parties failed apart from the conservatives then the conservatives would have to seek a new opposition to make them legitimate. Party politics make/made no difference once they reach office. How many opposition Lords did we see in the current Lords debate on the Trade union bill? 15 at most.The head of our state is the Queen who is an investor. This means it's always going to be investors vs workers in our system. That is the permanent factor. Investors have no interest in putting profits into efforts of equality through higher bottom level wages. This civil dispute has played out since the industrial revolution.