Title: Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Postwar; Postmodern; Postcolonial
1Reading and Writing Skills for Students of
Literature in English Postwar Postmodern
Postcolonial
- Enric Monforte
- Jacqueline Hurtley
- Bill Phillips
21939-2010
3George VIs death (1952)
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4Elizabeth II (1952)
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5Governments since the war
- 1945-51 Labour governments (Clement Attlee)
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- 1951-64 Conservative governments (Winston
Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan)
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7- 1964-70 Labour governments (Harold Wilson)
- 1970-74 Conservative governments (Edward Heath)
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- 1974-79 Labour governments (Harold Wilson, James
Callaghan)
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- 1979-97 Conservative governments (Margaret
Thatcher, John Major)
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- 1997-2010 New Labour governments (Tony Blair,
Gordon Brown)
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- 2010- Conservative/Liberal Democrat government
(David Cameron, Nick Clegg)
12Second World War (1939-1945)
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U.S. cargo ship carrying ammunition explodes
after being bombed by German aircraft. Right,
D-day landing (6 June 1944)
13Winston Churchill
- When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never
to criticize or attack the government of my own
country. I make up for lost time when I come
home.
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14The Yalta Conference (1945)
Cold War
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lta.htm
15San Francisco Conference (1945)
- To reach agreement on an international
organization designed to keep the peace in the
postwar world. The most important document was
the Charter of the United Nations, adopted by the
conferees on 25 June 1945
16End of the Second World War (8 May 1945)
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6 August / 9 August atom bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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17The Welfare State (1945)
- Social Policy in the UK
- "And when it gets really cold, just remember
we're the envy of Europe." - Cartoon by Bill McArthur
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18- The family as the cornerstone of social
reconstruction - Beginnings of youth culture the Teddy boy
- The television age
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19The Empire
- Britain loses its position as leading colonial
power - 1947 India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma
- 1948 State of Israel, Republic of Ireland
- 1957 Ghana
20- Witch-hunt in the USA led by senator Joe
McCarthy
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21- Chinese Revolution led by Mao Tse-Tung (1946-49)
- Korean War (1950-53)
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22- Suez crisis (July-October 1956)
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231960s
- Lady Chatterley trial (1960)
- 1967 Abortion Act, Sexual Offences Act
decriminalising homosexuality - Divorce Reform Act (1969)
- Equal Pay Act (1970)
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_Pathway.php
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24- Mary Whitehouses Clean-up TV campaign. Below,
with Mick Jagger (1964)
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tml
25- Rise of youth culture and pop music the Beatles,
the Rolling Stones and rocknroll
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26- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) (1958)
- Late 1960s start of womens liberation and gay
and lesbian liberation movements
27Immigration
- Late 1950s-mid 1960s massive arrival of
immigrants from Commonwealth nations - First Race Relations Act (1965)
- Second Race Relations Act (1968)
28Immigration
- National Front founded by Enoch Powell (1966)
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29Out of England
- The Troubles
- Re-emergence of the IRA (1969)
- Scottish and Welsh nationalism
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.htm
Left, a government attempt to stop a Catholic
civil rights demonstration turns into a riot,
setting off 'the Troubles.' Right, residents flee
burning homes in Belfast.
30The Empire
- More colonies gain independence
- Cyprus, Nigeria (1960)
- Tanzania, Republic of South Africa (1961)
- Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda (1962)
- Kenya (1963)
- Malta, Zambia (1964)
- Barbados, Guyana (1966)
- Zimbabwe (1979)
31- Vietnam War (1956-1975)
- Hippie movement
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331970s
- Increasing industrial tension
- Miners strike (1973-74)
- Youth culture skinheads and punks
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page_11.htm
34- Britain joins the EEC (1973)
- A new design of fifty pence coin was issued to
commemorate its entry into the European Economic
Community
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35- Racial tensions
- Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Opportunities
Commission (1975) - Third Race Relations Act, Commission for racial
equality (1976) - Germaine Greers The Female Eunuch
- (1970)
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36Northern Ireland
- Derrys Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972)
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37- Northern Ireland Parliament suspended direct
rule from London (1972) - IRA bombing campaign in Britain (1974)
- Prevention of Terrorism Act (1974)
- Referendum on devolution in Scotland and Wales
defeated (1979) - IRA bombs the
- Parliament, injuring 11 people
- (17 June 1974)
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381979
- The winter of discontent
- May Margaret Thatcher comes to power
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391980s Thatcherism
- Miners strike (1984-85)
- Privatization, popular
- capitalism and enterprise
- culture
- Post-industrialization
- and the age of information technology (IT)
- Right, miners picket outside Port Talbot Steel
Works, 3 April 1984
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t.htm
40Thatcherism end of Welfare State
- Social Security Act (1986)
- Housing Act (1980)
- Education Reform Act (1988)
- Polarization North vs. South
41- Royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
Spencer, 29 July 1981 - Death of Princess Diana, 31 August 1997
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42- Falklands War (1982) nostalgia for Empire
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43- Urban / race riots
- Bristol and Brighton (1980)
- London and Liverpool (1981)
- Birmingham (1985)
44- IRA bomb attacks in London (1982)
- Anglo-Irish Agreement between London and Dublin
governments to promote peace in Northern Ireland
(1985)
45- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
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cannot-withstand-faith-truth-freedom/photograph-fr
om-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-november-9-1989/
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node/866
461990s and beyond
- First Gulf War (1990-91)
- War in Bosnia (1992-95)
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Srebrenica massacre
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massacre_memorial_gravestones_2009_1.jpg
47New Labour
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ticulo/239/tony-blair-gana-fortuna-por-propiedad-f
inanciada-por-contribuyentes/
48Out of England
- 31 August 1994 Ceasefire announced by IRA
- Devolving assemblies in Scotland (1997), Wales
(1997) and Northern Ireland (Belfast agreement or
Good Friday Agreement, 1998)
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-heritage/pages-in-history/important-irish-interna
ti/an-overview-of-the-years--8/
49The new millennium
- The Millennium Dome, London
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e-1.jpg
509/11/2001, New York City
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/911
51New Labour InternationalPolitics
- Iraq war
- Azores, 16 March 2003
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52Second Battle of Fallujah, Second Gulf War, 2004
- Second Gulf War or Iraq War (2003)
- New forms of global terrorism (11-M, 7/7)
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7/7, London 2005
11-M, Madrid 2004
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53- Globalisation
- Environmental crises
British Petroleum Oil Spill in the Gulf of
Mexico, 2010
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54Changes in the monarchy
- 9 April 2005 Royal wedding of Prince Charles and
Camilla Parker Bowles, Duchess of Cornwall
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55May 2010 a new coalition
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