Redefining British Politics

Black, Lawrence

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“…As Lawrence Black has put it, in relation to the 1960s, postwar Britain was a society 'in which politics was neither an easy nor a notably popular activity' and in which voters' relationship with parties became increasingly 'consumer-like'. 15 All this gave the Liberals and Liberal Democrats a relatively thin cultural presence, with a large pool of potential supporters, but a small core vote. Between 1979 and 2010, for instance, only about one-tenth of British Election Study respondents described themselves as Liberal, SDP or Liberal Democrat identifiers and less than 2 per cent identified with the party 'very strongly'.…”

Section: Liberal Englandsmentioning

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Rethinking Postwar Liberalism: The Road to 2010 and Beyond

Sloman¹

2023

Political Quarterly

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The nineteenth and early twentieth century Liberal Party has been well served by British political historians. By contrast, research on the post‐1945 Liberal Party and Liberal Democrats has become a specialised field, with strong empirical foundations (including in biographies and political science work) but few connections with the larger narratives that historians tell about postwar Britain. This article explores how the story of the ‘long Liberal revival’ from the late 1950s to the 2010–15 coalition might be reintegrated with contemporary historiography, including debates about deindustrialisation, class dealignment and the rise of ‘popular individualism’. It argues that careful attention to the nature and limits of Liberals’ political agency can help us understand the changing meaning and significance of third‐party politics in Britain.

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Rethinking Postwar Liberalism: The Road to 2010 and Beyond

Sloman¹

2023

Political Quarterly

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“…In particular, the social movements that came into focus during the 1960s and 1970s questioned the 'civic deference' that had arguably dominated Britain's political culture for the earlier portion of the century, challenged the sufficiency of existing means of participation and encouraged many to engage in more direct and confrontational political action. 58 As these critiques were articulated, and as experience of comprehensive planning shattered the optimism promulgated by the post-war planners, the privileged place of the professional planner also came under scrutiny. 59 This was, then, a period in which the relationship between the state and civil society was actively questioned and it was this context that added fuel to the discussions of participation in planning and conservation activities that were occurring at the time.…”

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Local associations and participation in place: change and continuity in the relationship between state and civil society in twentieth-century Britain

Hewitt

Pendlebury

2013

Planning Perspectives

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“…… Flow … is centrally important in our experience of television, since it shows, over a sufficient range, the process of relative unification, into a flow, of otherwise diverse or at best loosely related items. 41 Following a BBC interview with Carmichael after his 1967 London tour, Whitehouse wrote to the broadcaster and several newspapers to complain of the damage the broadcast might do to public morale. 42 Her appeal was premised on the fear that the increasingly volatile rhetoric of international antiracist and black liberation politics, transmitted into British living rooms, could threaten the stability of the social order in Britain.…”

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Black Power on the Telly: America, Television, and Race in 1960s and 1970s Britain

Waters¹

2015

J. Br. Stud.

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This paper proposes the importance of television, the televisation of US and British race politics, and the framing of "Black Power" in this television coverage, for race politics in Britain in the late 1960s and early 1970s. British politics and culture was "re-racialized" in the postwar era, and television, for white and black Britons, became a site of racial knowledge, racial identification, and racial dislocation. The rise of television as a central medium of everyday life saw it emerge, too, as a central site for the imagination of community. As critics have long noted, the community imagined in British television programming of this era was overwhelmingly white, and black people were featured most often only as a marker of social difference or social "problems." Many black Britons, excluded from the national "everyday" as it was constituted on television, and facing increasing institutional and interpersonal racism in daily life, found in coverage of the burgeoning black liberation movements of the United States a useable politics through which to articulate new sites of identification, community, and solidarity. For others, though, coverage of race politics in the United States could be a source of anxiety and alarm. The televisation of US race politics was central to the growth of cultures and politics of radical blackness in Britain, but it also reconstituted the politics of white racism, recasting blackness in Britain as a sign of violence and impending social disorder. I n the late 1960s and early 1970s, race politics and the processes of racialization in Britain were reconfigured through television coverage of US Black Power, urban uprisings, and global black resistance politics. In the postwar decades, the end of empire and the onset of large-scale nonwhite immigration from the former colonies resulted in the "re-racialization" of national identity and citizenship in Britain. This process has been explored as it worked through the cultural legacies and memories of empire; however, historians are only now beginning to investigate the place of the United States in the race politics of postwar, postimperial Britain. 1

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Redefining British Politics

Cited by 32 publications

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Rethinking Postwar Liberalism: The Road to 2010 and Beyond

Rethinking Postwar Liberalism: The Road to 2010 and Beyond

Local associations and participation in place: change and continuity in the relationship between state and civil society in twentieth-century Britain

Black Power on the Telly: America, Television, and Race in 1960s and 1970s Britain

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