Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 1. Politics, Reform and War

In Part 1 of our series on Social and Political Change in the UK 1800-present we look at UK political history, political reform and the domestic impact of the World Wars.

Part 1 features: Professor Eric Evans, Professor Stanley Henig, Professor Richard Grayson, Professor Keith Laybourn, Dr Daniel Todman and Dr Helen Parr.

Early British Radicals

The Chartists

Gladstone and Disraeli - Reform and Rivalry

1890-1922 - Change and Reform

Domestic impact of World War I (Part 1)

Domestic impact of World War I (Part 2)

Social, political and economic problems of the 1920s and 30s

Britain and World War II

1945-64 - Post War Consensus and the welfare state

1964-79 - Reasons for the growing domestic problems under the Labour and Conservative Governments

Margaret Thatcher and her legacy

Britain and Europe: relations since 1945.

Britain and the Cold War (Part 1)

Britain and the Cold War (Part 2)

About the Authors