Labour's Promised Land? Culture and Society in Labour Britain, 1945-51

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Notes on Contributors xi
• Introduction: Missing the Tide xvii
• Part 1: – The Post-War Political Culture 1
• Days of Hope: The Meaning of 1945 3
• 'To Make Men and Women Better Than They Are': Labour and the Building of Socialism 16
• A Golden Past?: The Labour Party and the Working Class in 1945 28
• 'Daughter of the Newer Eve': The Labour Movement and Women 43
• Wives and Citizens and Watchdogs of Equality: Post-War British Feminists 58
• A'Third Way'?: The Labour Left, Democratic Socialism and the Cold War 73
• Towards Isolation: The Communist Party and the Labour Government 88
• Defeat and Renewal: The Ideology of the Right 100
• Part 2: – a Welfare Society? 113
• The Welfare State: A New Society? 115
• An Historic Compromise: Labour and the Foundation of the National Health Service 132
• Housing the People 146
• Equality of Opportunity?: The Labour Government and Schools 163
• Part 3: – a People's Culture? 179
• The Government, the People and the Festival 181
• Betrayed Spring: The Labour Government and British Literary Culture 197
• British 'Mccarthyism' and the Intellectuals 224
• The Days of the New Look: Consumer Culture and Working- Class Affluence 247
• Adults Learning – for Leisure, Recreation and Democracy 264
• Art and Architecture for the People? 276
• Myths of Consensus and Fables of Escape: British Cinema 1945-51 289
• Recording a Land- Scape: Growing Up in Dormanstown 302
• Name and Place Index 314
• Subject Index 317

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