The Nature of Decision-making in the Post-war New Towns Policy: The Case of Basildon, c. 1945–70
in Twentieth Century British History
January 2005; p ublished online January 2005 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Modern History (1700 to 1945); Contemporary History (Post 1945); British History. 0 words.
The nature of post-war economic and urban planning has been controversial. This article examines the problem through a ‘grass-roots’ study of the establishment and the early social history...
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Roads to Ruin on the Atomic Frontier: Environmental Decision Making at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, 1942–1952
in Environmental History
July 2010; p ublished online July 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Contemporary History (Post 1945); Environmental History. 14850 words.
For over forty years, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation produced plutonium for the American nuclear arsenal, generating significant radioactive waste in the process. The reasoning behind why...
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WTO
in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
P ublished online September 2016 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Contemporary History (Post 1945). 292 words.
The successor to *GATT, founded by the Marrakesh Agreement of 1994 and effective from 1 January 1995. Its aim has been to promote economic liberalization, mutuality, and preferred trade...
Politburo
Overview page. Subjects: Contemporary History (Post 1945).
The highest policy‐making committee of Communist Parties, modelled on the organizational structures of the Soviet Union. There, a Politburo was founded after the Russian Revolution of...
EFTA
Overview page. Subjects: Contemporary History (Post 1945).
(European Free Trade Association)
Established in May 1960 on a British initiative in response to the establishment of the EEC. It was a free trade area without the EEC's commitment...
Margaret Thatcher
Overview page. Subjects: Contemporary History (Post 1945).
(b. 13 Oct. 1925).
British Prime Minister 1979–90
Early career
Born in Grantham (Lincolnshire), she was educated at Kesteven and Grantham Girls School, and at...
WTO
in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
P ublished online March 2019 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: History; Contemporary History (Post 1945). 438 words.
The successor to *GATT, founded by the Marrakesh Agreement of 1994 and effective from 1 January 1995. Its aim has been to promote economic liberalization, mutuality, and preferred trade...
Democratizing Mexican Politics, 1982–2012
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online April 2015 .
Article. Subjects: Latin American History; Contemporary History (Post 1945). 9090 words.
Mexico’s democratic transition provides a revealing case study of a semi-authoritarian political model evolving incrementally into an electoral democracy over two decades. One of the...
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Making Homes by Machine: Images, Ideas and Myths in the Diffusion of Non-Traditional Housing in Britain 1942–541
in Twentieth Century British History
January 1999; p ublished online January 1999 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Modern History (1700 to 1945); Contemporary History (Post 1945); British History. 0 words.
To understand more fully the widespread—and arguably mistaken—postwar adoption of prefabricated and systems construction, scholars have sought to place this process in its broader social...
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The Heath Government and British Defence Policy in Southeast Asia at the End of Empire (1970–71)
in Twentieth Century British History
January 2009; p ublished online December 2008 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Modern History (1700 to 1945); Contemporary History (Post 1945); British History. 9736 words.
This article examines the rationale behind the Heath government's 1970 decision to negotiate a Five Power Defence agreement with Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia and to...
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‘To Try and Find Out What is being Done to Whom, by Whom and with What Results’: The Creation of Psychosexual Counselling Policy in England, 1972–1979
in Twentieth Century British History
January 2009; p ublished online April 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Modern History (1700 to 1945); Contemporary History (Post 1945); British History. 10820 words.
Although neglected in recent sexual health policy, psychosexual services were briefly during the 1970s the focus of a reluctant policy initiative by the Department of Health and Social...
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The Prevention of Rural Depopulation: Housing and the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes, c.1917–39
in Twentieth Century British History
September 2012; p ublished online November 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Modern History (1700 to 1945); Contemporary History (Post 1945); British History. 10009 words.
Depopulation was an important issue affecting the lives of the inhabitants of rural Scotland in the inter-war years and throughout the twentieth century. Yet this has been a neglected area...
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Harold Macmillan and the Deadline Crisis Over Berlin 1958–9
in Twentieth Century British History
January 1998; p ublished online January 1998 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Modern History (1700 to 1945); Contemporary History (Post 1945); British History. 0 words.
This article examines postwar British foreign policy by analysing the decision-making process in Whitehall during the ‘deadline crisis’, the months between Khrushchev's ultimatum in...
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The Untraditional Worker: Class Re-Formation in Britain 1945–65
in Twentieth Century British History
June 2015; p ublished online October 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Modern History (1700 to 1945); Contemporary History (Post 1945); British History. 9738 words.
This article explores the development of shop-floor organization in the British motor industry between 1945 and 1965. Where much of the social and labour history of post-war Britain has...
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