Political issues: • Women played a major role in WW2 and were permanent in the industries now. • Political conflict between the war time coalition governments Churchill PM Conservative‚ Attlee DPM Labour: 1) The war-time coalition between the Conservatives (led by PM Winston Churchill) and Labour (led by Deputy PM Clement Attlee) broke up in 1945 over the question of the nature of the British society in the future. 2) The Conservatives would have been happy for a return to the inter-war practice
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Assess the impact of the Suez crisis on the conservative party 1955-1959 The conservative party managed to recuperate after the Suez crisis‚ which was a major low point in the party’s history. But how could the party bounce back after such a major event? The conservative’s policies changed to cater of everyone with re-established the conservatives as a strong party. The Suez crisis greatly affected the conservative party as a whole. For an example the lack of trust with the party. Eden
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fragmentation of the later poem. Gleckner also dismisses "A Divine Image‚" the poem sometimes compared with "The Divine Image‚" as a work with no subtlety of theme. Another comparison between "The Divine Image" and "The Human Abstract" occurs in Harold Bloom’s 1963 text‚ Blake’s Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument. Here‚ Bloom asserts the deliberate incompleteness of "The Divine Image" by arguing that its God is a "monster of abstractions‚ formed out of the supposedly human element in each of
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How Successful was the Heath Government of 1970-74? Edward Heath came into power in 1970 in a surprise victory against Harold Wilson. Heath was very different to other conservative leaders; he was a middle class grammar school boy‚ the youngest ever Conservative leader and the first to become a leader through an open election. His accession marked a change in the leadership of the Conservative Party from aristocratic to meritocratic‚ which many people saw as a refreshing change. However‚ the
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Assess the claim that Edward the Confessor gave too much influence to the Normans. In my answer I will explain how each point‚ argument and source etc. affects how Edwards influence upon the Normans reached or maintained a high or low point within this time period. I will also say how these pieces of information are for and against the Influence towards the Normans. We firstly know that Edward Was born in England but raised in Normandy thus meaning that Normandy could have first acquired a taste
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battle because was well prepared and had a good army. The Normans had knights on horseback who were skilful fighters. William was extremely determined to be King of England and would not let anything stand in his way- not even successful warrior Harold Godwineson-. In the Bayeux Tapestry‚ it shows William’s army getting ready and preparing huge ships. Another component on William’s side was luck. The wind changed‚ and so the Normans managed to cross the Channel and arrive earlier than anticipated
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part of the 20th century‚ which favoured applicants from certain countries. The abolition of the policy took place over a period of 25 years. Following the election of a coalition of the Liberal and Country parties in 1949‚ Immigration Minister Harold Holt allowed 800 non-European refugees to remain in Australia and Japanese war brides to enter Australia. Over subsequent years Australian governments gradually dismantled the policy with the final vestiges being removed in 1973 by the new Labor
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The initial review of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker generally followed a pattern: the brilliance of the actors was celebrated and the questions of influence‚ primarily Beckett’s‚ were linked to discussions of the relationship between the comic and serious elements in the play. Interpretations of the ’meaning’ varied from the literal to the fully allegorical‚ by way of generalized abstract tags. Subsequent academic criticism‚ deriving from textual study rather than stage performance‚ has early always
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election defeat in 1970? In 1970‚ Harold Wilson’s Labour Government lost the general election to Ted Heath’s Conservatives. The Labour government had suffered economic problems (inherited from the previous Conservative government) throughout their time in office. Along with this; voters views of Wilson‚ problems with policy and awkward relations with the Trade Unions all contributed to the election defeat of 1970. Economically in the 1960’s‚ Labour and Harold Wilson had struggled. They inherited
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To What Extent Was The Conservative Government A Success In The Years 1951-1964? When Harold Macmillan said in 1957 that Britain had “never had it so good” it was easy to see why he spoke with such optimism. The period of Conservative dominance brought many benefits to the British people including the end of rationing‚ full employment and a boom in the economy. However‚ in labour’s 1964 manifesto they described this period as “thirteen wasted years”. It seems difficult to believe that both could
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