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A Civil Society

Charles Wheeler looks at the transition to a civic society but with new restrictions.

Charles Wheeler presents five personal interpretations of what the end of the Second World War meant to people in Britain and across the world. In A Civil Society - the transition to a civic society but with new restrictions. The Labour party wins 1945 Election. Post-war Britain and promises: there is the Beveridge plan and the creation of the NHS, rationing is tightened and the black market prospers, housing and prefabs, squatters. Then there was the German experience: we may have been hungry but much of Europe was starving.

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42 minutes

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Thu 12 May 2005 09:00

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  • Thu 12 May 2005 09:00