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Period
1945–1963 CE
Post-war Britain covers the years from the end of the Second World War in 1945 through the early 1960s. The immediate period was marked by bomb damage, rationing, housing shortages and reconstruction, alongside the creation of the National Health Service, nationalisation of major industries and expansion of the welfare state.
Decolonisation, Commonwealth immigration and rising consumer prosperity altered British society during the 1950s and early 1960s. The Suez Crisis exposed Britain’s reduced international power, while television, new youth cultures, changing class expectations and debates over immigration signalled a society moving beyond wartime austerity.
Series
The Hollis Family books follow members of a working-class English family from the immediate aftermath of the Second World War into the early 1960s. Across four novels, Ralph, Elsie, Henry and Josie pursue education, theatre, film and personal independence while rationing, class prejudice and inherited family expectations shape…
Books
Non-Fiction
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.
