Economic Depression and Recovering from the Trauma of the World War: The Social Reconstruction of Britain after World War II

Kaizhi Li

doi:10.54254/2753-7048/39/20240618

Research Article

Open access

Published on 4 March 2024

Download pdf

Li,K. (2024). Economic Depression and Recovering from the Trauma of the World War: The Social Reconstruction of Britain after World War II. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,39,220-225.

Export citation

Economic Depression and Recovering from the Trauma of the World War: The Social Reconstruction of Britain after World War II

Kaizhi Li *^,1,

¹ Guangzhou Foreign Language School

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/39/20240618

Abstract

The passage focuses on the reconstruction of Britain after World War II. The background of the research was the time period after WWII. In order to analyze the situation more precisely, the background information of the research had a time span from the 1920s to approximately the 1950s, starting from the Roaring Twenties to the publication of the Green Belt Policy. The passage focuses on the reorganization of cities and the reconstruction of the welfare system. The two examples listed in the following passage are the Green Belt Policy and the NHS, which represents the reconstruction of cities in England and the reconstruction of the welfare system of England. Other examples include data recorded in 1931 and several government documents by the British government. By answering the question of the advantages of Britain in the reconstruction of World War II, the passage hopes to provide some characteristics of the successful reconstruction of Britain to help reconstruction in other countries like Palestine.

Keywords

Postwar Reconstruction, Britain, Welfare System, City Structures

View pdf

References

[1]. Hu, D. K., Fei, Q. H.. (1995) The Historical Experience of the Second World War as a Valuable Wealth of Humanity. Journal of History, 4

[2]. Grant, Mariel. (2021)The Tourist Trap: Great Britain, Postwar Recovery, and the Marshall Plan. JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES,60(4):867-889.

[3]. Mo Lei. (2023) From trauma to consensus: memories of the Great Depression in British social transformation before and after the Second World War. Social Science Front, 7: 119-128.

[4]. Edgerton, David.(2011). War, Reconstruction, and the Nationalization of Britain, 1939-1951. PAST & PRESENT.

[5]. Zhu M, Gu F. (1996) The Great Depression between the two wars and the adjustment of British economic policy. Journal of Qiqihar Normal College (Philosophy and Social Science Edition), 4: 60-64.

[6]. Pople, A.H.(1986) How the peace was won: Anglo-American economic co-operation and the external constraints on British post-war reconstruction 1945-51. University of Sussex (United Kingdom)

[7]. John Stewart. (2017)Impact of the Great Depression on the long-term development of the British welfare state. The Economic History Review.

[8]. Gilbert, D. (2004). London of the Future: The Metropolis Reimagined after the Great War. Journal of British Studies, 43(1), 91–119.

[9]. Neil Powe. (2014) The Role and Effectiveness of Green Belts in England. Town Planning Review.

[10]. Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson. (2018) Healthcare Reform in England: Unpacking the policy response to the Great Recession. Social Policy & Administration.

Cite this article

Data availability

The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study will be available from the authors upon reasonable request.

Disclaimer/Publisher's Note

The statements, opinions and data contained in all publications are solely those of the individual author(s) and contributor(s) and not of EWA Publishing and/or the editor(s). EWA Publishing and/or the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to people or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content.

About volume

Volume title: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Psychology and Humanity Studies

Conference website: https://www.icsphs.org/

ISBN：978-1-83558-313-5(Print) / 978-1-83558-314-2(Online)

Conference date: 1 March 2024

Editor：Kurt Buhring

Series: Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media

Volume number: Vol.39

ISSN：2753-7048(Print) / 2753-7056(Online)

© 2024 by the author(s). Licensee EWA Publishing, Oxford, UK. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Authors who publish this series agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the series right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this series.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the series's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this series.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See Open access policy for details).