ABSTRACT
Second World War is the greatest abomination, but at the end of it the reaction is so great that out of it can come great progress. As soon as the Second World War ended party politics returned to something like normality. The main issue in the general election was undoubtedly postwar reconstruction. The Beveridge Report on welfare, for example, had been published as far back as December 1942. Work had been done on future possibilities for housing, land, transport, the countryside and other issues. The National Insurance scheme of 1946 similarly provided proper coverage for millions who had not been able to afford it before. The changes to the education system brought about by the 1944 Education Act were equally fundamental. The new act compelled the authority to provide secondary education for all, in grammar, technical or modern schools. For women, the onset of peace brought many difficulties apart from those brought on by the continuing austerity.
