Affluence and Society

Question 1

When did Food rationing end?

Answer 1

July 1954

Question 2

When was Festival of Britian?

Answer 2

1951

Question 3

Infrastructure in 1951?

Answer 3

Needed modernising
Traditional communities broke up
New towns built
Private car ownership increased
Homeownership incr. but most still living in council houses

Question 4

Affleunce in 1950’s?

Answer 4

surge ownership of consumer goods (hire purcahse)
(1955) ITV launched
(1957-9) TV rose by 32% cars by 25&
New roads and cars meant houses built of out cities
(1950’s) 60000 Butlins
<2% Butlins

Question 5

What was shift in attitudes in late 1950’s?

Answer 5

Suez exposed lying of gov.
Rise of CND led to challenge authroity and gov.
No longer defrential and conformist society (orinial ingrained respct for authority)
less willing to follow Establishment

Question 6

Affuence in 1960’s?

Answer 6

Satire boom
(1962) That was the week that was
USe of Arts to attack behaviour of establishment
Break down of censorship and social taboos
–> ‘Taste of Honey’ unmarried woman preganant after relationship with balck sailor

Question 7

How was reduction fo censorship taken by public?

Answer 7

Not universally pop. and caused backlash
led by MAry Whitehouse and parts of national press
undermined decency in society

Question 8

How was post war consesus by 1970 socially?

Answer 8

Social rpoblems and poverty had not been ended

Question 9

TV stats (1960’s)?

Answer 9

(1960) Hugh greene became Direcor General of BBC
–> set out to transofrm it
Money from radio to TV
Advertising expanded
(Apr. 1964) BBC2 launched
(July 1967) BBC2 first channel to broadcast regular colour programmes

Question 10

Radio in 1960’s?

Answer 10

survived helped by development of cheap and portable transistor and spread of car radios
Long life battery and earphones meant could be taken out
Personal radios meant programmes could be targeted at different audiences
Radio One started after pirate stations banned

Question 11

How did print media remain?

Answer 11

Newspapers that survived, changed and grew stronger
(1964) ‘The Sun’ was launched

Question 12

How had leisure activities changed?

Answer 12

(1969) TV 23% of lesiure time
live events and theatre suffered
New gadgetry encouraged cookery and needlework
Shopping became leisure activity
Mass tourism increased

Question 13

Car ownership in 1960’s?

Answer 13

Passenger bus, coach and train travel declined
(By 1974) Car accounted for 77% of journeys

Question 14

When was British Airways founded?

Answer 14

1964

Question 15

Airtravel in 1960’s?

Answer 15

More for middle class
Package holidays slowly increasing

Question 16

Development of science and technology/

Answer 16

(1961) first person to space
(1969) US landed on moon
- Anglo-French partnership developed Concorde project
(1965) Post Office Tower improve telecommunications

Question 17

Significance of Lord Cahmberlains Office?

Answer 17

LCO –> had power to prevent plays being performed
(1967) Geroge Strauss intro. bill to abolish theatrical censorship and was passed in 1968
–> permitted nudity on stage

Question 18

Films and censorship in 1960?

Answer 18

screen violence more acceptable

Question 19

attitudes towards permissive society?

Answer 19

declien in conventional moral standards: encouraged by contraceptive pill, mass media and enactment of liberal legislation

Question 20

Religious attitude towards contraceptive pills?

Answer 20

CAtholic church hostile to pill
–> contrary to God’s law and sinful

Question 21

How were permissive ideas spread?

Answer 21

Through media, teen amgazines, uncensored novels,

Question 22

Who was the moral campaigner concerned about changes of permissive society?

Answer 22

Mary WHitehouse
(1965) National Viewers and Listeners Assocaition with 100000
–> failed to have any imapct

Question 23

Drug culture in 1960’s?

Answer 23

‘hippy lifestyle’
(1967) Dangerous Drug Act –> unlawful to possess drugs such as cannabis or cocaine
(1968) Wooten Repor–> legalising soft drugs was rejected
(1970) max sentence for supplying drugs was incr. to 14 years

Question 24

What was key aim for Thatcher gov socially?

Answer 24

turn Britian into property owning democracy

Question 25

Housing Act when and what?

Answer 25

(1980) gave tenants right to buy their council house

Question 26

Outcome of Housing Act?

Answer 26

(1988) 2 million new homeowners had taken advantage of scheme to buy homes they previously rented

Question 27

What did Labout think of Housing Act?

Answer 27

Initially opposed it however, became so pop. with public so dropped it

Question 28

Negative affects of Right to Buy scheme?

Answer 28

mostly in better off area
councils ordered to use profits from council house sales to reduce debts not build new council housing
number and quality of houses reuced
waiting lists for renting homes got longer
People housed in emergency accomodation and sometimes not suitable for families

Question 29

Arts and Thatcher?

Answer 29

Tended to be anti-Thathcer due to cuts of public spending to arts
satirised Thatcherism e.g. Caryll Churchill and Boys from the Blackstuff

Question 30

Church opinions under Thatcher?

Answer 30

(1985) Faith in the City published
–> called on gov. to do more for deprived communities

Question 31

What culture aimed for classless society?

Answer 31

Anti-establishment culture