A Level History Modern Britain - Consensus Politics

2 hour lesson looking at consensus politics in Britain. Also includes an article about why Labour won in 1945.

Objective: To what extent was there a consensus between 1945 and 79?

Lesson 1:

Includes:

• Discussion around the lesson topic through the use of a graph

• Introduction to consensus

• Table of PMs from 1945-1979 (Consensus Prime ministers)

• Why Labour won the 1945 general election

• Group comprehension task using articles to assess the 1945 General election: Why did Labour win? Why did the Conservatives lose?

• Question planning activity: ‘How far do you agree that the landslide victory of the Labour party in the 1945 election was only possible because of Britain’s experience in the Second World War?’

Lesson 2

• Retrieval starter

• Introduction to the initiatives of consensus and Attlee’s government

• Positives and negatives of consensus discussion

• Primary source analysis video task: Thatcher on consensus vs conviction

• Group research into consensus governments and their key policies and events