social

1951 conservative manifesto

300,000 houses a year built

done by macmillan

rebuild houses destroyed

replace slums

butler act 1944

improving education

questioned in 1960 (macmillan)

clean air act 1956

prevent smog

homicide act 1957

restricted death penalty

beveridge report 1942

5 giants

support for welfare state/NHS

end of rationing

1954

car ownership 1951-64

500% rise in ownership

television ownership 1951-64

ncrease from 4% to 91%

holidays 1951-64

butlins holiday camps-60,000 people a week holidaying at home

2% of people holiday abroad

ITV

1955

1954 housing

354,000 houses built,1.7 million homes

1967 rent act

landlords werent allowed to charge what they wantes, waiting list for housing declined

1964 property ownership

people who owned property rose from 25%(before war) to 44% in 1964

1951-64 role of women

average age of women 21 and 75% of all women were married

women couldnt take money out themselves because all bank accounts in mens names making women financially dependant

1951 women working

1 in 5 women worked

equal pay for teachers

1952-women got equal pay

equal pay for civil servants

1954

household appliances 1957-59

number of households owning a washing machine rose 54% and fridges 58%

1951 election votes

65% of working class voted labour

80% of middle class voted conservatives

rising living standards

• pre-war slums cleared and new towns built

• increase in private savings

• farmers did well economically

• end of food rationing

• home ownership increased- people living in council houses and rented accomdation still higher

new towns which grew

• stevenge

• crawly

1958: construction on motorway system

1957-63: 1200 miles of construction

changing social attitudes and tensions

• racial tension theme of 1949 “sapphire” crime thriller

• “a clockwork orange” novel 1962 showed gang violence

• 1962 publish of explicit “lady chatterleys” lover- 2 million copies sold

• england still conservative

the emergence of “teenager” and youth culture

• labour saving devices/ end of national service meant more time

• 5 million teenagers in Britain- records and fashion

• teddy boys/ mods/ rockers: juvenile delinquency and rising crime

• rioting between mods and rockers in Brighton, may 1964