Eduqas GCSE History: Component 1 Option 1D — Austerity, Affluence and Discontent: Britain, 1951-1979

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What this course covers

• Topic 1 — Britain in the early 1950s

  • 1.1 – Austerity and rationing; housing problems
  • 1.2 – Debt and nationalised industries
  • 1.3 – Cost of welfare budget and industrial decline

• Topic 2 — The end of austerity

  • 2.1 – Town planning; wage rises and tax cuts
  • 2.2 – Macmillan – ‘never had it so good’ and Wilson – ‘white heat’
  • 2.3 – Motorway investment, the Beeching axe and comprehensive education

• Topic 3 — Popular entertainment and fashion

  • 3.1 – Changing musical styles; listening to music; popular groups and artists
  • 3.2 – Impact of TV and American culture
  • 3.3 – Fashion – teddy boys, mini-skirts, Mods, Rockers, hippies and punk

• Topic 4 — Changing lives of women

  • 4.1 – Labour-saving devices; family, marriage, divorce and abortion
  • 4.2 – Education and employment; women’s rights
  • 4.3 – Impact of the pill, equal opportunities and women’s liberation

• Topic 5 — Changing attitudes to authority

  • 5.1 – Permissive society, legalising homosexuality and drugs
  • 5.2 – Abolition of the death penalty and Profumo Scandal
  • 5.3 – CND and student protest in 1968

• Topic 6 — Immigration

  • 6.1 – Reasons for migration and British Nationality Acts 1948-65
  • 6.2 – Caribbean immigration - Windrush, race riots and Notting Hill 1958
  • 6.3 – Enoch Powell, right wing groups and race relations legislation

• Topic 7 — Political and economic problems

  • 7.1 – Industrial decline; Heath, the miners and the three-day week
  • 7.2 – The Winter of Discontent and the 1979 General Election
  • 7.3 – Civil unrest in Northern Ireland; Bloody Sunday and internment; IRA bombing campaign

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