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1950 - uk history - Coggle Diagram
1950 - uk history
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domestic policies
social reforms - macmillans reforms
- clean air acts of 1956 --> immed to prevent smog of eraly 1950s
- housing and factort acts aime to improve living and working conditions
butler as home sec was more liberal --> took actions on more controersial social issues --> homosexuality + death penelty
- homocide act of 1957 --> restricted when the death penelt would be imposed
1957 the wolfeden commision --> reccomended that homosexial behaviour should no longer be a criminal act
- issues return in 1960s
education- CONS continued triparte syrem in educ after the butler act 1944 --> 3 kinds of school; grammar (intelluctually gifted), technical school(practical and vocational skills), secondary modern (basic education to the majorty)
- 11+ would take a test to deteine which tyep of school they would go to --> finical restraints under chirchill ment mostly grammar and secondary modern chools, eden try t promate technical education
- 1960s ppl start to question if this system is fair
housing - 1951 consevative manifesto --> build 300,000 houses a year --> rebuild housing stock destroyed in WW2 + replace slums. maccmillan oversaw this
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