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| 1945 |
| | | English author Nancy Mitford has her first success with the novel The Pursuit of Love | |
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| 1945 |
| | | The British electorate dismisses Winston Churchill, giving the Labour party and Clement Attlee a landslide victory | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Winston Churchill, losing the postwar general election in Britain, has to yield his seat at Potsdam in mid-conference to Clement Attlee | |
|  | Andrew Marr A History of Modern Britain
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| 1945 |
| | | The Allies celebrate V-J Day – victory over Japan and the end of the war | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Evelyn Waugh publishes Brideshead Revisited, a novel about a rich Catholic family in England between the wars | |
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| 1945 |
| | | In George Orwell's fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin | |
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| 1946 |
| | | William Joyce, widely known as Lord Haw-Haw, is hanged by the British as a traitor | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The takeover of the Bank of England launches an extensive programme of nationalization by the Attlee government | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Winston Churchill, in a speech in Fulton, Missouri, expresses the harsh truth that an iron curtain has descended across Europe | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The National Insurance Act secures state benefits in Britain for the sick, old and unemployed | |
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