5. Story of England: Modern Warfare
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The British Nationalism of the Second World War
British nationalism was what defines the country in those decades immediately after the war. But a good chunk of that will be spent not on re-tooling British industry or providing more things for the British domestic population but on buying weapons to allow the British armed forces to participate in the Cold War. How does democracy, how does society change, class, deference, do the experience of huge numbers of people signing up fighting in uniform? Does that change the way that people interact in civilian lives with authority, with the monarchy, with government? Hmm.
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