Reading List – Paper 1: Britain Transformed, 1918-97

Books:

Andy Beckett, When The Lights Went Out: What Really Happened to Britain in the Seventies (London: Faber & Faber, 2010) Francesca Carnevali & Julia Marie Strange (eds.), 20th Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change (2nd Edition) (London: Routledge, 2007) David Cannadine, Class in Britain (London: Penguin, 2000) Peter Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain, 1900-2000 (London: Penguin, 2004) Juliet Gardiner, Wartime Britain, 1939-45 (London: Headline Review, 2005) Peter Hennessy, The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945. (London: Penguin, 2001) --- Never Again: Britain, 1945-51 (London: Penguin, 2006) --- Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties (London: Penguin, 2007) Ross McKibbin, Classes and Cultures: England, 1918-1951 (Oxford: OUP, 2000) Kenneth O. Morgan, The People’s Peace: Britain Since 1945 (Oxford: OUP, 2001) David Kynaston, Austerity Britain, 1945-51. (London: Bloomsbury, 2007) --- Family Britain, 1951-57. (London: Bloomsbury, 2009) --- Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59. (London: Bloomsbury, 2013) --- Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice. (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) Martin Pugh, The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1939 (3rd Edition) (London: Wiley, 2009) John Ramsden, An Appetite for Power: A History of the Conservative Party since 1830 (London: HarperCollins, 1998) Dominic Sandbrook, Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles. (London: Little, Brown, 2005) --- White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties (London: Little, Brown, 2006) Graham Stewart, Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s. (London: Atlantic, 2014) Andrew Thorpe, A History of the British Labour Party (4th Edition) (London: Macmillan, 2015) Nicholas Timmins, The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State (London: Harper Collins, 2001) Robert Tombs, The English and their History (London: Penguin Books, 2014) Alwyn W. Turner, Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s. (London: Aurum, 2008) --- Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s. (London: Aurum, 2010) --- A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s. (London: Aurum, 2013) Richard Vinen, Thatcher’s Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the 1980s. (London: Simon & Schuster, 2010)

Very Short Introductions:

David Garland, The Welfare State (Oxford: OUP, 2016) Kenneth O. Morgan, Twentieth-Century Britain (Oxford: OUP, 2000) Tony Wright, British Politics (Oxford: OUP, 2013)

Websites/Articles:

History Today, http://www.historytoday.com/ department log-in Username: Finance20 Password: history123 BBC History, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/

TV Documentaries:

BBC, Health Before the NHS (2012) (2 episodes) --- The Night the Government Fell (2009) --- Wartime Farm (2012) (6 episodes) --- Andrew Marr’s The Making of Modern Britain (2009) (6 Episodes) --- Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain (2007) (6 Episodes)