The price of restaurant meals was limited. Dora and the Aliens Restriction Act severely curtailed the civil liberties of non-British-born subjects (even naturalised citizens who had resided in the UK for decades). A group of Conservative industrialists did in fact put down an amendment calling on the government to postpone legislation, but this was not pressed after it became clear that early action was unlikely – ibid. Diaries and letters 1939–1943, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, The making of the national Health Service, ‘The “Keynesian Revolution” in economic policy-making, The genesis of modem British town planning, War diaries: politics and war in the Mediterranean, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X00021944, The welfare state, income and living standards, European variations of solidarity discourses in social democracy, Constraints on Action: Institutions and Ideas, Policy Legacies and Welfare States under Communism: Cycles of Social Policy Expansion and Retrenchment in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary, 1945–1989, Comparative and Historical Studies of Public Policy and the Welfare State, States, Civil Societies, and Globalization, The Wobbly Pillar? British defeats had stirred up nationalistic feelings in her colonies. Many people also emigrated from Australia fearing future invasion attempts from Japan. The exposure of widespread social deprivation, Titmuss claimed, made central government fully conscious for the first time of the need for reconstruction; the reforms subsequently proposed or enacted by the coalition were therefore an important prelude to the introduction of a ‘welfare state’ by the post-war Labour administration. I help a Lady Something.’ Strong Collection, Imperial War Museum. Far from being resented, most people welcomed this Government intervention and wanted it to go further. Women who were suspected of having venereal disease could be stopped by the police and subjected to a gynaecological examination. 47–56. Stone and C.M. Gwladys Cox’s Diary, 22 December 1939, Imperial War Museum. Don't have an account yet? When Britain got into the war, many immediate measures were taken. 85 Butler to Woolton, 13 Sep. 1944, Woolton papers, 16, fo. BBC Written Archives Caversham: Reconstruction-Political (Working Man’ Talks) 1941–3, Acc. 39 Hess, J., ‘The social policy of the Attlee government’, in Mommsen, W. J. 33 Brown, W. J., So far… (London, 1943), p. 276; 'British Labour saw in it an endorsement of the things Labour had been striving for for decades. 37 See especially the speech by Griffiths, Jim – H.C. Female factory workers challenged the gender order: they were earning much more than previously (three times more in some cases), were able to demonstrate their ability to carry out skilled work in areas previously barred to them, and were allowed greater leeway in the way they comported themselves publicly. The Conservative Research Department since 1920 (London, 1980), pp. Chewing gum, cigarettes, coca-cola and nylon stockings were all new to the British. 424–48. The video below looks at the role of British restaurants during World War Two and some of the food served up. The 1940–41 Diary of Mrs. Diana Brinton-Lee, entry for 17–25 August 1940, Imperial War Museum. She kept a diary of her war experiences, most of which her mother discovered and destroyed — historians of seventeenth-century Holland are not the only ones to have difficulties with their sources. Economically, the war ruined Britain. Gridley, Arnold (M.P. 51 Eckstein, H., The English health service (Massachusetts, 1964), pp. 8 Butler, R. A., The art of the possible (London, 1971), p. 90. in the 1940?s) was quoted to have said that ?It was seeing Votes for Women sold in the street that made me. The USA kept Britain going during the war and by the end of 1945, Britain's overseas debts stood at � 3 000 million.