ABSTRACT
This chapter covers the huge changes that took place in British society in the thirty years after the Second World War. It was a period in which traditional attitudes towards women, the media and young people were challenged. It also saw the fastest rate of nonwhite immigration to Britain and saw the rise of racism as a political force in Britain for the first time since the days of the British Union of Fascists (BUF). By the mid-1970s many people felt that British society was in serious crisis. Yet it was also the period in which the standard of living in Britain rose at the fastest rate it ever has. There has been much puzzlement among historians about how this was possible at a time when the British economy appeared to be declining in comparison with other industrialised nations.
