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Britain in the Inter- and Post-War Period - Coggle Diagram
Britain in the Inter- and Post-War Period
1920s &'30s
Relative Liberation of Women in Society
War-Time Employment
Establishment of a Right to Vote
New less Constraining Fashion Trends
Greater Interaction with Society
Family sizes shrinking
Emergence of Mass Media
Major Changes in Culture
Economic instability
More casual Fashion
Knee-length skirts (1925)
'30s a return to modesty
Underwear for men
Educational Reforms ('20s)
Art Deco
Electrification
Beginning of BBC Radio (1922) and BBC TV (1936)
Cinema culture
New Literature
Virginia Woolf
Aldous Huxley
James Joyce
William Faulkner
W. H. Auden
Eugene O'Neil
P. G. Wodehouse
Modernist style
'40s to 60s
Welfare State and the Post-War Consensus
Education Reform to close the Gap between Rich and Poor
Cheap labour from the former colonies
Austerity
Rise of Consumerism
Secularisation of Society
1948 London Olympics
'40s - Golden Age of Cinema
1950s 'Golden Age'
1960s
Predominance of British Music
Counterculture & the change in sexual morals
Growth of the BBC, rise of independent television
New Literature
Writers:
George Orwell
Kingsley Amis
William Golding
Graham Greene
Anthony Burgess
Brutalism
'New Towns'
Car culture and the building of motorways
Council housing
T. S. Eliot
