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Life in trenches made everyone familiar- shared experience
Decline in the upper class
Reason Fact Impact
disproportionately 1914 deaths: Six peers Sixteen Death duties - unable to now afford to
high deaths for baronets Six Knights 261 sons of maintain stately homes- sold to national trust,
aristocrats aristocrats hospitals or schools
1914- less than 10% owned land Less power wealth and asset; CA: Duke of
Elder sons had to
they worked on : 1930- this had Portland owned 8 houses in 1914 : 1939 he
sell land
risen to 33% still owned 4
Greater equality and housing
1918 representation of the people act
More democratic
People can improve through work
Number of house occupiers rose; growing suburbs
10% owned houses in 1914 and 32% owned houses in 1938
Had more house security, not in squalor as the beveridge report outlines
Growing working class in the late 30s
Class wars
Class and social values 1
, Cyleside and Tyneside- impoverished areas- were threats of open revolt
1926 general strike
The times- attacked strikers : “unpatriotic class warriors”
Rare class conflict into 30s however
Conservative have both support of classes
Great Depression- undermined working class solidarity as union membership declined
due to unemployment
Growth of new jobs and affluence in the south and midlands
Unions in affluent areas unlikely to strike with northern.
World War Two
Experience of the war shared
Britain has a classless county
Social revolution
Evacuation and hardships of rationing banded everyone together despite class difference
Co-operation and unity
Child psychologists Susan Isaacs and Anna Freud 1939- rural homes reinforced class
prejudices; widespread phenomenon of bed wetting ( sign of emotional distress)- this is
blamed by the host families upon the working class upbringings
Politics
Labour ministers criticise House of Lords and elitism; eton and harrow- show be
abolished
The labour landslide victory was less a revolt against the class system and more about
the hardship of 30s (in 1945 “let us face the future”)
Shows lack of change; not dramatic
Class and social values 2
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