This comprehensive and widely acclaimed study of British history since 1945 has been has been expanded to include a new chapter looking at the conflict over Brexit. This edition contains some further updating.

Kenneth O. Morgan is a working peer in the House of Lords and a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Contemporary British History, King's College London. From 1966 to 1989 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's; from 1989 to 1995 he was Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University, and also Senior Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, 1993-5. He has also been an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He is the author of many major works on British history including Wales in British Politics, 1868-1922; Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980; Labour in Power, 1945-1951; Consensus and Disunity: the Lloyd George Coalition Government, 1918-1922; The People's Peace: British History, 1945-1990; Modern Wales: Politics, Places and People; Callaghan: A Life; The Twentieth Century (A Very Short Intoduction). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1983 and became a life peer in 2000.

• I. The Era of Advance, 1945-1961


• 1: The Facade of Unity


• 2: Labour's High Noon, 1945-1947


• 3: The Collectivist Retreat, 1948-1951


• 4: The Conservative Compromise, 1951-1956


• 5: The Zenith of One-Nation Toryism, 1957-1961


• II. The Years of Retreat, 1961-1979


• 6: The Stagnant Society, 1961-1964


• 7: Labour Blown Off Course, 1964-1967


• 8: Years of Hard Slog, 1968-1970


• 9: The Heath Experiment, 1970-1974


• 10: Challenge to Consensus, 1974-1976


• 11: The Years of Discontent, 1977-1979


• III. Thatcherism and its Aftermath, 1979-1998


• 12: The Foundations of Thatcherism, 1979-1983


• 13: High Noon for the New Right, 1983-1990


• 14: Fin de Siècle: New Labour in Power, 1990-2001


• 15: Millennial Perspectives, 2001 - 2008


• 16: From Crash to Brexit, 2008 - 20


• Select Bibliography


• Index