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In his book, Britain in the Second World War: A social history, Dr. Harold L. Smith provides original documents in an effort to examine the implications that World War II led to a sense of social idealism within Britain. Smith provides research and proof that the general consensus of social unity in Britain after World War II are misleading, and that in actuality, there existed a "continuation of prewar social conflicts and . . . Policy differences dividing the Labour and Conservative parties" (1). This paper will focus on both social structure and social policy in British history in the wake of the Second World War, including class, race, women, family, health, social insurance, national health service, and employment policy.
The Second World War was promoted as a war of the people in an effort to unify a country that was divided a decade earlier--the patriotic view came about in the midst of the war while other material which may have objected to this unification of peoples,......

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