Key events and figures of the Sixties
Find out as much as you can about the
following events, people and things. They are all crucial to an understanding of
what it meant to live in Britain in the 1960s.
Try to summarise what each of them would have meant to the ordinary
person. You should use your own research
skills in the library, and on-line, but you might also find it useful to talk
to parents and grandparents who lived through the period.
CND
The Lady Chatterley’s Lover Trial
Harold
Wilson
Kitchen Sink Drama
End of
National Service
The
Contraceptive Pill
Private Eye
Oz
Magazine
The Sunday Times colour supplement
The
Beatles
Commonwealth
Immigration Act
Enoch
Powell
That Was the Week That Was
John
Profumo
The Kray
Brothers
Mods and
Rockers
The Great
train Robbery
Ready Steady Go
Harold
Macmillan
Mary
Whitehouse
Radio
Caroline
Carnaby
Street
Biba
Twiggy
Habitat
Abolition
of Capital Punishment
Race
Relations Act
‘Swinging
London’
Occupation
of the London School of Economics by Students
Mini
Skirts
The
Austin Mini
The Prisoner
The
Legalisation of Homosexuality
LSD
Radio
One
The
Vietnam War
Devaluation
of the Pound
I’m Backing Britain Campaign
Decimalisation
of Currency
Time Out Magazine
The
Rolling Stones
British
Army moving into Belfast and Londonderry
Colour
Television
The
Women’s Liberation Movement
Student
Riots in Paris
The War Game
