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| Question | Answer |
| Correlli Barnett | 'The Lost Victory' (1995)- Right-wing (but not Thatcherite)- Attlee should have diverted resources into building up industrial recovery rather than on the welfare state; this led to Britain's economic decline. |
| Trevor Blackwell | 'The Politics of Hope' (1998)- left wing the Labnoure governments of 1945-51 were almost revolutionary in building their 'New Jerusalem'. |
| Stuart Ball | 'The Conservative Party and British Politics, 1902-51' (1995)- The Conservative governments of 1951-64 were characterised by three things; the public appeal of moderate Conservative leaders, the growth of consumer affluence, and the disunity in the the Labour party. |
| John Ramsden | 'The Conservatives, (1977)- Conservative success was based on the desire to improve the 'condition of the people'- raise standardsof material well-being. |
| Kevin Jeffreys | 'Finest and Darkest Hours' (2002)- left-wing- Eden was in trouble before Suez because of his health, his opponents in Cabinet (talking about him to a journalist, Butler called him 'the best Prime Minister we have'), he was being unfavourably compared to Churchill, and Britain's underlying economic weaknesses were coming to light (balance of payments deficit and loss of export markets). |
| Kenneth O Morgan | 'The People's Peace' (2001)- Macmillan's government was the high point of one-nation Toryism (moderate right of centre policies that were non-confrontational). |
| Dilwyn Porter | 'Never-Never Land' in 'From Blitz to Blair' (1997)- The Conservatives oversaw a decline in the economy and a progression in the arts. |
| Dominic Sandbrook | 'Never had it so Good' (2005)- British popular culture was booming in the mid 1960's. |
| Paul Addison | 'The Road to 1945' (1975)- The postwar consensus came about because of the wartime coalition. |
| Ben Pimlott | 'The Myth of Consensus' in 'The Making of Britain' (1988)- There was no consensus in political terms because the electorate only voted for the Conservatives or Labour, thereby disproving the idea of consensus. |
| Edmund Dell | Britain 'missed the bus' in not forging closer links with Europe in the 1940's and 50's. |
| John Young | 'Britain and European Unity' (1999)- Britain did not want to enter in the Schuman Plan because of a fear of losing sovereignty but needed new markets for trade. |
| Douglas Jay | 'Change and Fortune: A Political Record' (1980)- In his memoirs from his years as a Labour cabinet minister under Attlee Jay states that the Conservatives had an easy time in office because of the hard work of Attlee's government. |
| Kenneth O Morgan | 'The Wilson Years: 1964-70' in 'From Blitz tro Blair' (1997)- Wilson was a social moderniser, a decent man who was for more humane than Thatcher. |
| Philip Whitehead | 'Writing on the Wall' 1985)- 'The government lost both trade union support for being too tough and some support be appearing...to be too weak.' |
| David Marquand | 'The Progressive Dilemma' (1991)- 'No modern British government has disappointed their supporters so thoroughly'. |
| Nick Tiratsoo | 'You've never had it so bad?' In 'Blitz to Blair' (1997)- Thatcher's supposed 'rescue' of Britain is a deceptioon and Britain was not that awful in the 1970's. |
| Kevin Jefferys | 'Finest and Darkest Hours' (2002)- The Wilson's, Heath, And Callaghan governments tried to carry on with consensus politics involving the unions, but the worsening economic problems meant that this was becoming more difficult. |
| Eric Shaw | 'The Labour Party since 1945' (1996)- Talking about the Labour government between 1974 and 1979, 'One is left with the impression of a government struggling to do its best in extremely bleak conditions'. |
| Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson | 'The Age of Insecurity' (1998)- The period between 1951 and 1973 was an economic 'golden age'. |
| B.W.E Alford | 'British Economic Performance, 1945-1975' (1988)- 'Britain's poor economic performance has been the dominant theme of political debate and economic disclosure since the 1950's.' |
| Arthur Marwick | 'The Sixties' (1998)- The cultural changes that came about between 1958 and 1973 were a revolution and changed Britain irrevocably. |
| Dominic Sandbrook | 'White Heat' (2009)- The sixties myth plays a huge and incorrect role in British social history. Change was neither widespread nor long-lasting. Most people only experienced minor changes to their lives in this period. |
| Eric Evans | 'Thatcher and Thatcherism' (2004)- Thatcherism, in his view, is a series of interconnected political attitudes rather than a coherent body of thought. |
| Peter Riddel | 'The Thatcher Decade' (1989)- Thatcherism can be traced to Thatcher's second term between 1983-87. |
| Kenneth O Morgan | 'The People's Peace' (2001)- The policies of the New Right on one side and the activities of the Marxists who invaded the Labour Party in the 1980's helped to smash the postwar consensus. |
| Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson | 'The Age of Insecurity' (1998)- 'Callaghan provided the overture for Thatcherism, pioneering many of her themes.' |
| Hugo Young | 'One of Us' (1993)- Thatcherwas correct in trying to get a rebate from the EU even though it was seen as showing contempt to Europe at the time. |
| Eric Hobsbawm | 'Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life' (2002)- A Marxist view stating that Thatcher's 'revolution' was extremely damaging to the British economy and society. |
| Norman Davies | 'Europe: A History' (1966)- Thatcher oversaw an increasing centralised form of government which was completely contradictory to her intention to 'roll back the frontiers of the state' |
| Peter Hennessy | 'The Prime Minister: The Office and its holders since 1945' (2001)- John Major's cabinet was involved far more in policy discussions than Thatcher's. |
| Kenneth O Morgan | 'The People's Peace' (2001)- Major won the 1992 general election because of the distrust shown towards Labour rather than as a result of Major's popularity. |
| Robin Oakley | 'Inside Track' (2001)- John Major 'It was at that moment we lost the 1997 election...there was never any real hope after that.' (John Major reflecting on the ERM Crisis of September 1992). |
| Anthony Seldon | 'Major: A Political Life' (1997)- The Major Government oversaw a strong economy (from 1993 onwards), a thriving culture, and a smooth adaption to the post-Cold War era. |
| Peter Clarke | 'Hope and Glory, 1900-2000' (2001)- Blair's government followed many of Thatcher's policies. |
| John Keegan | 'The British Century' (1999)- 'It is Thatcher's financial and industrial regime that prevails' (Keegan emphasises the continuation between Thatcherism and new Labour). |
| Peter Riddell | In 'The Times' (1 August 1997)- 'Goodbye cabinet government. Welcome Blair presidency.' |
| Peter Hennessy | 'The Prime Minister: The Office and its holders since 1945' (2001)- Blair's new Labour was a strictly controlled organisation where Blair had the final, and ultimate, say, on everything apart from economic policy where Brown ruled. |
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