If I were teaching a one-semester course on British history Since 1945, I
would recommend neither my own BRITAIN YESTERDAY & TODAY: 1830 TO THE
PRESENT (of which a 7th edition is due in January 1996) nor T. William
Heyck's THE PEOPLES OF THE BRITISH ISLES: FROM 1870 TO THE PRESENT
(although I agree with John S. Ellis that it is very good). Rather I would
strongly consider a combination of Arthur Marwick, BRITISH SOCIETY SINCE
1945, 2nd ed. 1991, and Alan Sked and Chris Cook, POST-WAR BRITAIN: A
POLITICAL HISTORY, 3rd ed., 1990.