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Percentage of Relationships ending in Divorce in 1950

0.2%

What percent of the vote did the National Front get in 1979?

0.6%

How many votes did Callaghan lose the Vote of No Confidence by?

1

Number of Murders per Million in 1980

12.5

VAT on Luxury Goods in 1976

12.5%

Number of legal Abortions in 1980

128,000

Inflation in 1979

13%

TV licenses in 1964

13m

How many people died in Bloody Sunday?

14

How many stabbings were there following an infamous Manchester united game?

14

Maximum Prison Sentence for Drug Pushers by 1970

14 years

What percentage did the Pound's value fall in 1967?

14%

Britain's Share of World Trade in 1960

15%

How many Lorry Drivers went on strike during the Winter of Discontent?

15,000

How many people had gunshot wounds in the Battle of the Bogside?

150

How many were injured in the most violent Anti-Vietnam Protest in 1968?

150

Rape cases in the mid 1970s

1500

What wage increase did Ford merseyside workers demand?

17%

By 1970, what percentage of Married women were on the pill?

19%

When did Aleck Bourne perform his abortion on a 14 year old rape victim?

1938

Clement Attlee's Premiership

1945-1951

Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

1946

McMahon Act

1946

When did Britain announce its withdrawal from Greece?

1947

When was Christian Dior's New Look range released?

1947

British Nationality Act

1948

Formation of the NHS

1948

When did the OEEC form?

1948

When did the Windrush arrive in Britain?

1948

When was the Malayan Emergency?

1948-1960

Korean War

1950-1953

Churchill's Second Period as Prime Minister

1951-1955

Operation Hurricane

1952

When was the EDC proposed?

1952

When was the Egyptian royalty overthrown?

1952

When were Wartime ID Cards cut?

1952

When was the Mau Mau Rebellion?

1952-1960

When did Stalin die?

1953

When did the ECSC form?

1953

When did the EDC fall through?

1953

When was Derek Bentley hanged?

1953

When was Iron, Steel and Road Haulage Denationalized?

1953

When was Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation?

1953

When did cheap, light, personal radios become available?

1954

When did the WEU form?

1954

When had all British troops withdrawn from Egypt?

1954

When was Food Rationing Abolished?

1954

When did ITV launch?

1955

When dis Double Your Money start airing?

1955

When was Ruth Ellis hanged?

1955

Anthony Eden's Premiership

1955-1957

Clean Air Act

1956

What year did Bevan and Gaitskell start working closer together?

1956

When did Elvis Presley break into popularity in Britain?

1956

When was Rape Defined?

1956

When was the Suez Crisis?

1956

Grapple X test

1957

Homicide Act

1957

Wolfenden Report

1957

Harold Macmillan's Premiership

1957-1963

Atomic Energy Act

1958

When did the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) Form?

1958

When did the EEC form?

1958

When was the Homosexual Law Reform Society founded?

1958

When was the Notting Hill riots?

1958

Which two years had more people entering Britain than leaving?

1958 and 1962

Housing Act

1959

Obscene Publications Act

1959

When did the Guardian emerge?

1959

When did the Notting Hill Carnival start?

1959

When was Kelso Cochrane murdered?

1959

When was the EFTA formed?

1959

When was the first stretch of the M1 opened?

1959

When were the first Minis sold?

1959

Thalidomide Disaster

1959-1962

When did Bevan die?

1960

When did National Service End?

1960

When was Lady Chatterley's Lover Published in Britain?

1960

Winds of Change Speech

1960

National Economic Development Council (NEDC)

1961

When did Britain first apply for EEC membership?

1961

When did Britain first start receiving Polaris Submarines?

1961

When was the Pay Pause on Public Sector Employees?

1961

When was the Profumo Affair?

1961

When was the pill licensed for use in Britain?

1961

Commonwealth Immigrants Act

1962

National Incomes Commission (NIC)

1962

Pilkington Committee Report

1962

When did 'That was the Week that was' Start airing?

1962

When did University Challenge start airing?

1962

When was the Night of Long Knives?

1962

When was the Borneo confrontation?

1962-1966

When did De Gaulle first veto Britain's entry to the EEC?

1963

When did Gaitskell die?

1963

When did Malaysia form?

1963

When did the Hovercraft start operations?

1963

When did the Profumo Affair break in the Media?

1963

When was the Robbins Report?

1963

Alec Douglas-Home's Premiership

1963-1964

When were the Moors Murders?

1963-1965

When did China test its first atom bomb?

1964

When did Pirate Radio begin springing into popularity?

1964

When did Tanzania form?

1964

When did the Bullring open?

1964

When did the Wednesday Play start airing?

1964

When was BBC2 created?

1964

When was the Battle of Brighton?

1964

When was the DEA set up?

1964

Harold Wilson's Premiership

1964-1970

Murder Act

1965

Race Relations Act 1

1965

When did Indonesia announce its intention to test its own atom bomb?

1965

When did Wilson abolish Prescription Charges?

1965

When did swearing start on TV?

1965

When did the DEA release their national plan for the Economy?

1965

When did the Post Office Tower open?

1965

When was the Education Circular released that persuaded schools to Comprehensivize?

1965

When was the first Anti-Vietnam Protest in Britain?

1965

When did Communist Indonesia undergo a revolution restoring its democracy?

1966

When was Swinging London featured in Time magazine?

1966

When was Wilson's first meeting with the Rhodesians on HMS Tiger?

1966

When was the Dockers' Strike demanding a 17% pay rise?

1966

Abortion Act

1967

Family Planning Act

1967

Marine Broadcasting Act

1967

Matrimonial Homes Act

1967

Sexual Offenses Act

1967

Six Day War

1967

When did Britain start withdrawing troops from the Middle East, Aden and Borneo?

1967

When did NICRA emerge?

1967

When did Oz start publishing?

1967

When was BBC Radio One established?

1967

When was Colour television first brought to Britain?

1967

When was Devaluation under Wilson?

1967

When was flogging abolished?

1967

When was the 'stop Adams' protest that resulted in a death of a porter?

1967

When was the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream?

1967

When was the pill available to use for Single women?

1967

Kenyan Asian Crisis

1967-1968

When was the Biafra Crisis?

1967-1970

Commonwealth Immigrants Act (Labour)

1968

Race Relations Act 2

1968

Rivers of Blood Speech

1968

Theatres Act

1968

When did Wilson reintroduce Prescription Charges?

1968

When was Wilson's second meeting with the Rhodesians on HMS Fearless?

1968

When was the Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm released?

1968

When was the first major instance of Violence in the Troubles (March in Londonderry)

1968

When was the women's strike in Ford Dagenham?

1968

Divorce Reform Act

1969

When did British troops enter Northern Ireland?

1969

When did Charles De Gaulle retire?

1969

When did ITV and BBC1 gain Colour support?

1969

When did Monty Python's Flying Circus start airing?

1969

When did Northern Ireland introduce one man one vote?

1969

When did the Provisional IRA form?

1969

When was "In Place of Strife"?

1969

When was the Battle of the Bogside?

1969

When was the DEA abolished?

1969

When was the abolition of Capital Punishment made permanent?

1969

When was the first flight of Concorde?

1969

Equal Pay Act

1970

When did Rhodesia declare independence?

1970

When did the Gay Liberation Front start?

1970

When was the Education Circular withdrawn?

1970

Edward Heath's Premiership

1970-1974

Decimalisation

1971

Festival of Light

1971

Industrial Relations Act

1971

Nationalization of Rolls Royce

1971

When did Heath apply to enter the EEC?

1971

When did the Open University start operations?

1971

When had Britain withdrawn all troops East of Suez?

1971

When was Chiswick Women's Aid set up?

1971

When was Free School Milk abolished?

1971

When was Internment without Trial introduced in Northern Ireland?

1971

When was the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders liquidated?

1971

When was the first ever non-Unionist Northern Ireland Cabinet minister appointed?

1971

Last Tango in Paris

1972

Local Government Act

1972

Marxist Guerrilla War in Rhodesia

1972

SALT

1972

The Blue Marble Photograph

1972

Watership Down

1972

What year did the Miners' initially demand a 45% pay increase?

1972

When did Gay News start?

1972

When did the Spaghetti Junction open?

1972

When was A Clockwork Orange released?

1972

When was Bloody Sunday?

1972

When was Direct Rule from Westminster imposed on Northern Ireland?

1972

NHS Reorganisation Act

1973

Social Security Act

1973

Sunningdale Agreement

1973

The Wombles

1973

What year did the Miners appeal for a 35% Pay Increase?

1973

When did Britain enter the EEC?

1973

When did Heath establish the three day week?

1973

When was Capital Radio established?

1973

When was homosexuality not deemed a mental illness?

1973

When was the People's Party (Green Party) founded?

1973

Yom Kippur War

1973

Birmingham Pub Bombings

1974

Health and Safety at Work Act

1974

Portuguese Revolution

1974

Harold Wilson's Second Period as Prime Minister

1974-1976

EEC Referendum

1975

Employment Protection Act

1975

Sex Discrimination Act

1975

The Good Life

1975

When was ACAS set up?

1975

When was Maternity Leave introduced?

1975

When was the National Abortion Campaign set up to protect the Abortion Act?

1975

Education Act

1976

Kissinger plan

1976

The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency

1976

When did the Animal Liberation Front form?

1976

When did the First Rape Crisis Centre open?

1976

When did the Pound first fall below $2?

1976

When was Rock against Racism set up?

1976

James Callaghan's Premiership

1976-1979

When did Reclaim the Night start as a response to the Yorkshire Ripper?

1977

When was the Anti-Nazi league set up?

1977

When did England's football team get its first black player?

1978

When was SERPS introduced?

1978

When was the Black and White Minstrel show taken off air?

1978

When was the RAR Victoria Park carnival?

1978

David Attenborough's Life on Earth

1979

Jeremy Thorpe's trial for suspected murder plotting

1979

SALT II

1979

Scottish Devolution Referendum

1979

Three Mile Island Nuclear meltdown

1979

When did 'Bent' open in theatre?

1979

When did Sid Vicious die?

1979

When had the IMF loan been paid off fully by?

1979

When did Rhodesia achieve Black Majority Rule?

1980

How many ministers in Macmillan's Cabinet didn't go to Public School?

2

How long did two partners to live apart to qualify for Divorce if both wanted it following the Divorce Reform Act?

2 years

How many votes did Mosley get in 1959?

2,000

Working Days Lost in 1964

2,300,000

How many train stations did Richard Breeching close in 1961?

2,400

Around what fraction of children 1951-64 went to Secondary Moderns?

2/3

What fraction of kids were educated in Comprehensive Schools in 1974?

2/3

How many members did the National Front have in 1976?

20,000

How many people were told not to leave their homes during the Lower Falls district searches?

20,000

In 1968, how many students of Hull University went on protest against their final exams?

200

What was the cost of the Prescription Charge Introduced by Churchill?

20p

Age of Consent for Homosexuals following the Sexual Offenses Act?

21

How many were killed in the Birmingham Pub Bombings?

21

Number of legal Abortions in 1968

22,000

Inflation in 1975 (peak)

24%

Britain's share of World Trade in 1950

25%

VAT on Luxury Goods in 1975

25%

How many people were in the most violent Anti-Vietnam Protest in 1968?

25,000

How many Universities were built following the Robbins Report?

26

What Percentage of Grammar School kids went to University 1951-64?

27%

In 1959, what Percent of Employers were in favour of employing women?

28%

Working Days Lost in 1979

29,400,000

What Ratio did Gaitskell beat Bevan in the Labour leadership Contest?

2:1

How many licensed radio channels were there in the early 60s?

3

On average, how many times more Resources did Grammar Schools have than Secondary Moderns 1951-64?

3

At the height of Immigration in the 50s, how many people were entering Britain a week?

3,000

How many kilometres of rail track were dismantled in 1963?

3,000km

Inflation in 1964

3.3%

What percentage of overseas package holidays were to Spain in the 60s?

30%

How many arrests were made in the most violent Anti-Vietnam Protest in 1968?

300

How many supermarkets were in Britain in 1958?

300

Rape cases in 1950

300

How many houses a year did Churchill aim to build?

300,000

Percentage of Scottish population who voted for Devolution

33%

What Percentage of the Total Labour force in 1961 was female?

33%

What Percentage of Private School kids went to university 1951-64?

35%

How many women were hospitalised due to poor backstreet abortions a year?

35,000

Unemployment in 1951

370,000

What was NHS Spending in terms of percent of Public Spending in 1951?

39%

By 1977, the National Front was the _th largest party

4

What was the Labour Majority in 1964?

4

What Percent of Houses owned a TV in 1950?

4%

What percentage of Students were going to University in 1960?

4%

What fraction of major oil companies had tankers on strike in the Winter of Discontent?

4/5

In 1957, what percentage of Manual Labourers considered themselves Middle Class?

40%

Percentage vote needed for Scottish Devolution (of whole Population- not just voters)

40%

How many British spies in Germany did Blake pass the names of to the Soviets?

400

What was NHS Spending in terms of percent of Public Spending in 1955?

43%

What was home ownership percentage in 1964?

44%

Welsh Devolution 1979 was voted against by what ratio?

4:1

TV licenses in 1955

4m

How many kids did Brady and Hindley kill?

5

How long did two partners to live apart to qualify for Divorce if one side wanted it following the Divorce Reform Act?

5 years

Percentage of women in 1965 that worked managerial jobs

5%

What percentage of Students went to Private Schools 1951-64?

5%

How many supermarkets were in Britain in 1972?

5,000

Number of Cars in Britain in 1960

5.5m

At launch, what percentage production was British Leylands at?

50%

In the 50s, the average wage of a woman was what percent of a man's?

50%

Percentage of Relationships ending in Divorce in 1970

50%

What Percentage of exports were going to the Commonwealth in 1950?

50%

Unemployment in 1964

500,000

Indian/Pakistani Population in Britain by 1958

55,000

How many Bevanites voted against West German Rearmament in 1952?

57

Inflation in 1970

6%

Number of Murders per Million in 1955

6.3

What was the Average Age of Churchill's Cabinet?

60

How many Bevanites abstained on the Hydrogen Bomb vote in 1955?

63

Unemployment in 1970

630,000

What Percentage of people voted yes in 1975?

66%

How many arrests were made in the Battle of Brighton?

76

What percentage of journeys in 1974 were taken by car?

77%

How many people died in the Battle of the Bogside?

8

Ford Merseyside Management had their wages risen by what percent in 1979?

80%

How many people did the British Nationality Act entitle to British citizenship?

800,000,000

How many women died of Backstreet Abortions between 1958-1960?

82

Tax on top earnings under Wilson's Emergency Budget

83%

How many teenagers infamously went 'n*gger hunting' leading up to the Notting Hill riot?

9

By 1970, what percentage of Single women were on the pill?

9%

Inflation in 1951

9%

In 1965, what fraction of people objected to interracial marriages?

9/10

How many candidates did the National Front put up in 1974?

90

What Percent of Houses owned a TV in 1964?

91%

What was the Labour Majority in 1966?

96

Tax on unearned income under Wilson's Emergency Budget

98%

What sparked the Notting Hill Riots?

A dispute between a mixed race couple

Who was Thatcher's Campaign manager for Tory Leadership?

Airey Neave

Which doctor successfully defended his use of an abortion on a 14 year old rape victim on mental health grounds?

Aleck Bourne

Where did the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream take place?

Alexandra Palace

Examples of Movies that were more permissive in the 60s

Alfie and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

The man who created the NHS

Aneurin Bevan

Who wrote 'The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm'?

Anna Koedt

Who was Foreign Secretary under Churchill?

Anthony Eden

Which Act Overturned the McMahon Act?

Atomic Energy Act

Which Commonwealth Nations agreed with British Actions in the Suez Crisis?

Australia and New Zealand

What did Wilson and Callaghan abolish in Northern Ireland

B Specials

Which channel first received Colour support?

BBC2

Who introduced SERPS?

Barbara Castle

Who was responsible for writing In Place of Strife?

Barbara Castle

The Queen and Harold Macmillan attended what show?

Beyond the Fringe

Who introduced Britain to Rock n Roll in the 50s through Hollywood movies?

Bill Haley and his Comets

Birmingham band that birthed the Heavy Metal genre in the 60s

Black Sabbath

What was the name of the British Nuclear Programme that was scrapped in the late 50s for its cost?

Blue Streak

Most influential Reggae band that rose to prominence in the 60s

Bob Marley and the Wailers

Who was the Beatles manager?

Brian Epstein

Who was put in charge of the DEA?

Brown

Where did former Bevanites join following Bevan's loyalty to Gaitskell?

CND

Who was initially the Chancellor of the Exchequer under Wilson?

Callaghan

What was the Nuclear Program that Britain was purchasing from America in the 70s known as?

Chevaline

Who did Profumo have an affair with?

Christine Keeler

In the 1959 Labour Party Conference, what did Gaitskell question to remove from the Labour Manifesto?

Clause Four

What was the name of the Liberal Leader who was offered a position in Churchill's Cabinet?

Clement Davies

What was the relationship between the US and UK known as under Wilson?

Close Relationship

What is the name of the Middle Ground of Policies agreed upon by both parties post War?

Consensus

What was Callaghan quoted as saying during the Winter of Discontent?

Crisis? What Crisis?

Who led parliament on Legalisation of Abortion?

David Steel

Who was prosecuted for publishing a poem about Jesus having sex with a Centurion?

Denis Lemon

Chancellor of the Exchequer under Wilson and Callaghan

Dennis Healey

Which Act allowed for a no fault divorce following an irretrievable breakdown of a marriage?

Divorce Reform Act

Who went on strike in protest of Powell's firing?

Dockers

What reporting found that female education and training was inadequate in 1968?

Donovan Commission

How did the USA get the UK to pull out of Suez?

Dropping support for loans of money and oil

Which plan turned the EDC into an Intergovernmental force?

Eden Plan

Belligerents in Yom Kippur

Egypt and Syria against Israel

Which wine bar segregated men from women and received massive backlash from female journalists, prompting a change?

El Vino

Which Act stopped Women from being fired for being Pregnant?

Employment Protection Act

What did Pope Paul VI argue against the Pill with?

Encyclical Humanae Vital

People on the Right against the EEC

Enoch Powell and Ian Paisley

What does ECSC stand for?

European Coal and Steel Community

What does EDC stand for?

European Defence Community

What does EEC stand for?

European Economic Community

What does EFTA stand for?

European Free Trade Association

Examples of Books published after the Obscene Publications Act

Fanny Hill and Last Exit to Brooklyn

Other examples of strikers during the Winter of Discontent

Firemen, Ventilation Engineers, BBC Technicians

Who became the leader of the TUC in 1956?

Frank Cousins

What spy was indoctrinated in Korea and became a Soviet double cross spy?

George Blake

How did the Ulster Unionists dominate Politics in Northern Ireland?

Gerrymandering

Controversial TV show depicting realistic life in a Comprehensive School in the 70s

Grange Hill

Which strikers turned Public Opinion against the strikes?

Gravediggers and Children's Hospital Nurses

Where was the most common place for the Anti-Vietnam protests? (US embassy)

Grosvenor Square

Examples of Plays published after the Theatres Act

Hair and Oh Calcutta

Who did Eden shuffle from Foreign Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer to avoid him gaining too much power?

Harold Macmillan

Who was Minister for Housing under Churchill?

Harold Macmillan

How did Britain succeed in dealing with the Malayan Emergency?

Hearts and Minds Campaign

Who saw Britain as America's Bridge into Europe?

Henry Kissinger

In 1968, which college went on protest against entry requirements and graded assessments?

Hornsey College of Art

Which Act relaxed and abolished Rent Control?

Housing Act

Which areas were ignored in the first Race Relations Act?

Housing, Education and Employment

What was Harold Wilson's nickname?

Huddersfield Harold

Which 60s Highrise building was known by locals as 'Alcatraz'?

Hyson Green

Who were the Moors Murderers?

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

Who was the leader of Rhodesia?

Ian Smith

Where were homosexuals limited to showing their relationships?

In Private

What was ACAS?

Independent Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service

Which Act created an Industrial Relations Court, required Unions to Register to legally strike and also created cooling periods before a strike?

Industrial Relations Act

Which Act criminalized Sympathy Strikes?

Industrial Relations Act

Which type of Organisation involved Governmental Cooperation?

Intergovernmental

Who was Responsible for the Health and Safety at Work Act?

James Callaghan

Who was initially Home Secretary under Wilson?

Jenkins

Leader of the Liberal Party during the Liberal Revival

Jo Grimond

Who was responsible for the murders in 10 Rillington place?

John Christie

Who wrote 'Look back in Anger'? (1956)

John Osborne

Who was the Minister of War who was involved in a Scandal?

John Profumo

Who was known as the King of Carnaby Street, producing flamboyant designs for men?

John Stephen

What man was blackmailed by the KGB to give Government Secrets in exchange for his recorded Gay Orgy not to be leaked?

John Vassal

Relationship between UK and USA under Heath

Just a Relationship

Who was the man that Thatcher initially supported to contest Heath as Tory leader?

Keith Joseph

Who was the first man to be killed in Britain on the grounds of Race?

Kelso Cochrane

What Economic Policy did Churchill Support?

Keynesian

Who put new spins on traditional clothes in the 60s?

Laura Ashley

Who led Parliament on Homosexual Law Reform?

Leo Abse

What did Derek Bentley say that ultimately got him executed?

Let Him Have it

What did Callaghan suggest against in Place of Strife?

Let the Tories pass it

Woman attacked and urinated on in Hyson Green

Linda Bilson

Who did Macmillan force to accept wages five times lower than their demands?

London Bus Drivers

What was Britain's most valuable colony in 1945?

Malaya

Which countries (initially) formed Malaysia?

Malaya, Brunei, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo

Who left the university of Edinburgh after the Student Body requested the pill to be made available in the Health Centre?

Malcolm Muggeridge

Who was at the top of the 'League of Violence'?

Manchester United

Minister for Education under Heath

Margaret Thatcher

Who invented the miniskirt?

Mary Quant

who most notably opposed TV Permissiveness?

Mary Whitehouse

Why was Fashion changing post war?

Mass Production

Which Act gave the Husband and Wife the same right of occupation of a family home?

Matrimonial Homes Act

Which Youth Group in the 50s-60s highlighted a Working Class aspiration to be Middle Class?

Mods

Which Youth Group in the 50s-60s were known for wearing the best clothes they could find?

Mods

Group of Right Wing Tories in the 70s who were in favour of Trading with Rhodesia

Monday Club

What did the Family Income Supplement under Heath allow low income families to be exempt from?

NHS Charges and School Meal fees

Which Act brought the Pill under the NHS?

NHS Reorganisation Act

What organisation did the TUC boycott, leading to its failure?

NIC

Who was the President of Egypt during Suez?

Nasser

What does NUPE stand for?

National Union for Public Employees

Traditionally, Britain had always had more emigrants leaving the country than immigrants entering- this gave the country a label-

Net Exporter of People

Who did Britain support in the Biafra Crisis?

Nigeria

In terms of technology, where did Government Grants go mostly towards under Wilson?

Nuclear Arms, Energy and Concorde

Which Organisation was responsible for giving out Marshall Aid?

OEEC

What does OEEC stand for?

Organisation of European Economic Cooperation

Where did the Liberals win a by-election in 1962 on a Traditionally Tory seat?

Orpington

Who was the leader of the British Union for Fascists?

Oswald Mosley

What was the most significant Feminist Consciousness-Raising Group in the 1960s that was backed by Barbara Castle and Vanessa Redgrave?

Peckham Rye Group

Developments in Healthcare 1951-64:

Penicillin; Polio Immunity; Human gene Mapping; Better X-Rays, operations and transfusions

Who wrote 'Beyond the Fringe'? (1960)

Peter Cook

Who was the Tory MP in Smethwick?

Peter Griffiths

Which London Landlord exploited the Housing Act and threatened clients to pay extortionate fees?

Peter Rachman

What tools were used in the Open University?

Postal Services, TV, Radio and Audio Casettes

What was the key part of the Sunningdale Agreement that nobody could agree upon?

Power Sharing

60s TV shows drawing upon sci-fi and the Space Race as inspiration

Quatermass, A for Andromeda and Doctor Who

Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Churchill?

R.A. Butler

Who did Home beat in the 1963 Tory Leadership Contest?

RAB Butler

Examples of Pirate Radio stations

Radio Luxembourg, Radio Caroline and Radio London

What report in 1963 found that Universities didn't have enough places and needed to expand?

Robbins Report

Which Youth Group in the 50s-60s were known for dressing deliberately scruffy and owning Motorbikes?

Rockers

What was Malaya's biggest export?

Rubber

What ship was infamous for starting the Migration from the West Indies?

SS Empire Windrush

What plan set up the ECSC?

Schuman Plan

What made the impact of the Winter of Discontent worse?

Secondary Picketing

What was the name of the Conspiracy between Britain, France and Israel in 1956?

Sevres Protocol

Who wrote 'A Taste of Honey'? (1961)

Shelagh Delaney

What was British rock n roll known as?

Skiffle

What did the UK purchase from America following the failure of Blue Streak?

Skybolts

Where did the Tories have the unofficial Campaign slogan 'If you want a N*gger for a neighbour, vote labour'?

Smethwick

What was brought in place of the industrial Relations Act under Wilson?

Social Contract

Which countries continued to sell Rhodesia oil after its sanction in 1966?

South Africa and Mozambique

What relationship between the USA and UK was coined with Churchill?

Special Relationship

Term for increasing Inflation, Strikes and Unemployment in the 60s-70s

Stagflation

Who Directed A Clockwork orange?

Stanley Kubrick

What does SERPS stand for?

State Earnings Related Pension Scheme

Who was the Osteopath convicted of Living off immoral earnings during the Profumo Affair?

Stephen Ward

What economic problem did RAB Butler start?

Stop-Go Cycle

What was the name given to Macmillan by Political Satirists?

Supermac

Developments in Consumer Goods 1951-64:

Supermarkets; Fairy Liquid (1960); Aerosols; Disinfectants; Nylon; Lycra; PVC

Which type of Organisation involved a loss of National Sovereignty?

Supranational

Who led parliament in the push against Capital Punishment?

Sydney Silverman

Which company continued to pay their female employees less then male employees, leading to a 21 week strike?

TRICO

Which Countries formed Tanzania?

Tanganyika and Zanzibar

Examples of Colonies with quick, successful decolonisation

Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Swaziland, Somalia, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Malawi, Mauritius etc.

What was a big issue in Education in the 70s and stopped complete Comprehensivization?

Teacher Accountability

Which Youth Group in the 50s-60s were known for Jeans, Jackets and carried knives?

Teddy Boys

Which Youth Groups in the 50s-60s were a sort of parody of the Middle Class?

Teddy Boys

60s TV show drawing upon spies, along with gender equality and permissive themes

The Avengers

What did John Osborne write for Laurence Olivier?

The Entertainer

What was the inner Tory Establishment who supposedly conspired to get Home into power known as?

The Magic Circle

What did Wilson say on TV following Devaluation?

The Pound in your Pocket has not been Devalued

Which band was particularly hated by the media for their vulgarity and long hair?

The Rolling Stones

What Society did Aleck Bourne help to found in the 60s?

The Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child

Notable band that featured black and white members in the 70s

The Specials

What were the three coloured players in West Bromwich Albion nicknamed?

The Three Degrees

Examples of British rock n roll bands in the 50s/60s

The Who, the Kinks and the Quarrymen

how did Trade Unions boycott the Industrial Relations Act?

They didn't register

Who was wrongly executed on Murder Charges in 10 Rillington Place?

Timothy Evans

What product had increased taxes and duties on it under Eden?

Tobacco

Items that Wilson increased taxes on

Tobacco, Alcohol and Petrol

People on the Left against the EEC

Tony Benn, Michael Foot and Barbara Castle

Who was Labour's Education Secretary under Wilson?

Tony Crosland

What treaty set up the EEC?

Treaty of Rome

Who was one of the most famous models during the 60s?

Twiggy

OPEC puts Oil embargoes on which countries during the Yom Kippur War

USA, Western Europe and Japan

What did Britain refuse to let America do during the Yom Kippur War?

Use British Air Bases

The 70s saw the rise of

Vandalism, Hooliganism and Violence

Who was England's (the team) first black footballer?

Viv Anderson

Who was the Director of the London School of Economics who had links to Rhodesia and was protested against?

Walter Adams

What did Wilson say about Britain's stance in Vietnam?

We can't kick our creditors in the balls

What does WEU stand for?

Western European Union

Which group advocated for curbed immigration to protect the 'Racial Supremacy' of the White Brit?

White Defence League

What was Wilson's Campaign Line in 1964?

White Heat of Technology

Who were the three main contestants for the Labour Leadership Contest in 1963?

Wilson, Brown and Callaghan

What Report in 1968 suggested legalisation of Cannabis?

Wooten Report

Who was the Russian Spy involved in the Profumo Affair?

Yevgeny Ivanov

David Bowie's stage name in the 70s

Ziggy Stardust

What was the name of the Anti-Establishment Playwright group?

the Angry Young Men

Who was Responsible for the Headless Men Scandal?

the Duchess of Argyll

Which cheap British cars were sold at a loss?

the Mini

How much did Britain owe India post WW2?

£1.3b

What did the Labour Government in 1964 initially expect the Deficit to be?

£100m

Advertising expenditure in 1951

£102m

ITV advertising revenue in 1956

£13m

Average Wage in 1961

£15

Deficit in 1967

£1500m

Balance of Payments Deficit by 1974

£1b

How much money was being generated a year by the North Sea Oil in the 70s?

£1b

What did costs of Chevaline reach by 1980?

£1b

Advertising expenditure in 1978

£2.5b

How much in Spending cuts did Healey make following the IMF loan?

£2.5b

How much did the IMF give Britain in 1976?

£2b

How much debt was Britain in post WW2?

£3000m

How much was agreed upon limiting wage rises to under the Social Contract?

£6 a week

A loan of how much was refused to Upper Clyde in 1971?

£6m

What was Quant's yearly income by 1966?

£6m

Balance of Payments Deficit in 1951

£700m

Balance of Trade Surplus in 1970

£700m

Average Wage in 1951

£8

Deficit in 1964

£800m

What was the Deficit by 1964?

£800m

ITV advertising revenue in 1961

£93m

How much did the Labour Government in 1974 invest in British Leylands?

$1b

Cost of a barrel of Oil in 1973

$2

What did the Pound's value fall from and to in 1967?

$2.80 to $2.40

Cost of a barrel of Oil in 1980

$35

How much did Nasser need to build the largest dam in the world?

$400m

Between 1951-1964, what percentage of University students were doing STEM subjects?

1%

How many British Fighters died in the Korean War?

1,100

Unemployment in 1979

1,500,000

Number of Cars in Britain in 1945

1.5m

Working Days Lost in 1951

1.7m

What fraction of kids were educated in Comprehensive schools in 1964?

1/10

In 1965, what fraction of people objected to living next to a black person?

1/2

Roughly what fraction of Northern Ireland's population were Nationalists?

1/3

What Fraction of Married Women worked in 1961?

1/3

What fraction did wages of the rich fall by under Wilson?

1/3

What fraction of Ministers were removed in the Night of Long Knives?

1/3

What fraction of kids were educated in Comprehensive schools in 1970?

1/3

In the 50s, what fraction of Businesses had a Glass Ceiling for women?

1/4

What fraction of trade moves through the Suez Canal?

1/4

In 1965, what fraction of people objected to working with black or asian people?

1/5

What Fraction of Married Women worked in 1951?

1/5

By 1960, how many of the top 10 shows were on ITV?

10

How many times did Addiction to Cocaine and Heroine rise by in the early 60s?

10

Black Population in Britain by 1800

10,000

How many British troops were sent to Korea?

10,000

How many Kikuyu ethnics were killed in the Mau Mau Rebellion?

10,000

How many illegal abortions occurred a year before 1967?

100,000-200,000

What percent did the wages of the poor go up under Wilson?

104%

When did TV broadcasts turn off during Heath's Three Day Week?

10:30

How many MPs did the Scottish National Party have in Westminster by 1975?

11

Pay Increase for NUPE following the Winter of Discontent

11%

Percentage of the vote that Liberals got in 1964

11%

Working Days Lost in 1970

11,000,000

West Indian Population in Britain by 1958

115,000

How many people protested the Polaris Submarines in the Holyloch?

12,000


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