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188 Cards in this Set
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Butler Act |
1944 |
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End of WWII |
1945 |
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Withdrawal from India |
1947 |
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NHS founded |
1948 |
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Empire Windrush |
1948 |
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Schuman Plan: European Coal and Steel Community founded |
1950 |
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Start of the Korean War |
1950 |
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Conservative victory: Churchill elected |
1951 |
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Bevanite quarrel |
1951 |
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Nationalisation of iron and steel |
1951 |
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Festival of Britain |
1951 |
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The Burgess and Maclean Affair |
1951 |
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Britain's first atomic bomb test |
1952 |
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Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya |
1952 |
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Equal Pay for Teachers |
1952 |
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European Coal and Steel Community formed |
1952 |
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Elizabeth II Coronation |
1953 |
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Steel and transport denationalised |
1953 |
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Britains first nuclear test |
1954 |
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Withdrawal from Egypt |
1954 |
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End of food rationing |
1954 |
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Equal Pay for Civil Servants |
1954 |
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Eden PM |
1955 |
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Butler 'give-away' budget |
1955 |
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Start of Vietnam War |
1955 |
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Full employment achieved |
1955 |
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Gaitskell leader of Labour |
1955 |
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Launch of ITV |
1955 |
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Messina Conference |
1955 |
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Ruth Ellis hung |
1955 |
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The Suez Crisis |
1956 |
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Run on the pound |
1956 |
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EEC formed by Treaty of Rome |
1956 |
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Clean Air Act |
1956 |
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Frank Cousins became leader of TGWU |
1956 |
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Macmillan replaced Eden as PM |
1957 |
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Conservative divisions - Thorneycroft & 'moneterism' |
1957 |
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Homicide Act |
1957 |
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Wolfenden Commission |
1957 |
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Ghana and Malaya independence |
1957 |
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British 'H' bomb tested |
1957 |
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Thorneycroft resignation |
1858 |
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Formation of CND |
1858 |
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Notting Hill riots 1958 |
1958 |
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Motorway system opened |
1958 |
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Mutual Defence Agreement |
1958 |
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First Aldermaston march |
1958 |
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Labour party conference: Gaitskell put forward idea of abolishing Clause IV of the party constitution |
1959 |
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General election: increased conservative majority |
1959 |
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Obscene Publications Act |
1959 |
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Second, bigger Aldermaston march |
1959 |
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Blue Streak missile program abandoned in favour of US Polaris |
1960 |
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Macmillans 'wind of change' speech |
1960
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Independence granted to Nigeria and Cyprus |
1960 |
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EFTA established |
1960 |
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End of National Service |
1960 |
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EEC applications submitted |
1961 1966 1971 |
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'Pay Pause' to hold down wage inflation |
1961 |
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First IMF loan |
1961 |
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National Economic Development Council set up |
1961 |
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South Africa leaves Commonwealth |
1961 |
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The birth control pill made available |
1961 |
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Berlin Wall built |
1961 |
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Robbins Committee set up |
1961 |
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The Night of the Long Knives |
1962 |
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National Incomes Commission set up |
1962 |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
1962 |
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The launch of That Was The Week That Was on BBC |
1962 |
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Commonwealth Immigrants Acts |
1962 1968 1971 |
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D. H. Lawrences Lady Chatterlys Lover published |
1962 |
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson |
1962 |
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EEC applications vetoed by de Gaulle |
1963 1967 |
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Kenyan independence |
1963 |
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The Profumo Affair |
1963 |
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Macmillan resignation - Douglas Home becomes PM |
1963 |
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The Feminine Mystique published |
1963 |
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Labour victory - Harold Wilson PM |
1964 |
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George Brown National Plan / Department for Economic Affairs set up |
1964 |
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Organised rioting by Mods and Rockers in south-coast holiday resorts |
1964 |
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Escalation of the Vietnam War |
1964 |
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Independence for Zambia and Malawi |
1964 |
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The beginning of the annual Notting Hill Carnival |
1964 |
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BB2 launched |
1964 |
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Britannia Airways founded |
1964 |
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Mary Whitehouse moral crusade: Clean Up TV Campaign |
1964 |
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Death Penalty abolished [5 year trial] |
1965 |
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Race Relations Acts |
1965 1968 1976 |
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Unilateral Declaration of Independence for Southern Rhodesia |
1965 |
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Post Office Tower opened |
1965 |
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National Viewers and Listeners Association started |
1965 |
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Labour re-election victory - Wilson PM |
1966 |
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Wilson - Smith talks on HMS Tiger then again on HMS Fearless |
1966 1968 |
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Seamens Strike |
1966 |
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Sterling crisis |
1966 |
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Vietnam Solidarity Campaign set up |
1966 |
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Budget cuts in military commitments East of Suez |
1967 |
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Devaluation Crisis |
1967 |
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DEA abandoned |
1967 |
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War in the Middle East |
1967 |
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National Dock Strike |
1967 |
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The Abortion Act |
1967 |
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Sexual Offences Act |
1967 |
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The National Health Service [Family Planning] Act |
1967 |
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The Dangerous Drugs Act |
1967 |
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BBC Radio One started |
1967 |
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Enoch Powell Rivers of Blood speech |
1968 |
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Civil Rights Marches in Northern Ireland |
1968 |
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Theatres Act |
1968 |
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The Wootten Report |
1968 |
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Anti Vietnam War demonstrations and riots |
1968 |
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Hungarian Rising crushed by Soviet forces |
1968 |
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Barbara Castle: 'In Place of Strife' White Paper |
1969 |
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The Troubles in NI worsened |
1969 |
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Open University established |
1969 |
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Death Penalty abolishment made permanent |
1969 |
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Divorce Reform Act |
1969 |
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Womens National Coordination Committee established |
1969 |
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Edward Heath PM: Conservative victory |
1970 |
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Selsdon Park Conservative conference |
1970 |
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Equal Pay Act |
1970 |
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PWC break down |
1970 |
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The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer |
1970 |
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Matrimonial Property Act |
1970 |
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Decimalisation of the currency |
1971 |
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Heaths U Turn |
1971 |
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Rolls Royce nationalised |
1971 |
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funding of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders |
1971 |
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Industrial Relations Act |
1971 |
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Introduction of Internment [300 in NI] |
1971 |
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Birth control pill available on NHS |
1971 |
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Womens Lib demonstrations in London & Liverpool |
1971 |
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Bloody Sunday in Derry, NI |
1972 |
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Bloodiest year in NI: 1382 explosions, 10,628 shooting incidents & 480 deaths |
1972 |
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Direct rule for NI |
1972 |
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Major strikes by miners, ambulance drivers & power workers |
1972 |
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Industry Act |
1972 |
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Watership Down published |
1972 |
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British entry into EEC |
1973 |
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Yom Kippur War |
1973 |
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OPEC Oil Crisis |
1973 |
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Increased wage demands from miners |
1973 |
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Sunningdale Agreement |
1973 |
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The Peoples Party set up |
1973 |
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Who Governs Birtain? General Election Hung parliament - labour slightly more |
1974 |
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Labour minority government: Wilson PM |
1974 |
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NUM Miners Strike |
1974 |
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Three-day week |
1974 |
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Wilson called new election: small majority of 3 seats |
1974 |
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National Enterprise Board set up |
1974 |
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Ulster Workers' Council strike |
1974 |
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Collapse of Sunningdale Agreement |
1974 |
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Birmingham pub bomb - 19 killed |
1974 |
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EEC refurendum - 2:1 YES |
1975 |
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Sex Discrimination Act |
1975 |
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Employment Protection Act passed |
1975 |
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End of Vietnam War |
1975 |
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Margaret Thatcher new Conservative leader |
1975 |
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Peoples Party becomes Ecology Party |
1975 |
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Wilson resignation: Callaghan PM |
1976 |
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IMF loan of £3 billion |
1976 |
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Drastic spending cuts |
1976 |
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Special Category Status removed from terrorist prisoners |
1976 |
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Blanket Protests in NI |
1976 |
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First Rape Crisis centre opened |
1976 |
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Domestic Violence Act |
1976 |
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Commission for Racial Equality set up |
1976 |
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Rock against Racism founded |
1976 |
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Notting Hill Carnival tensions end in riots |
1976 |
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The Animal Liberation Front formed |
1976 |
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'Lib-Lab Pact' |
1977 |
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Conservative vote of no confidence defeated |
1977 |
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International Womens Day established by UN |
1977 |
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Anti-Nazi League set up |
1977 |
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Greenpeace UK set up |
1977 |
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Devolution Acts |
1978 |
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TUC rejected Labours proposed wage increase limit of 5% |
1978 |
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'WInter of Discontent' |
1978 - 1979 |
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Dirty Protest in NI |
1978 |
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Rock against Racism demonstration and concert |
1978 |
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Viv Anderson became first black footballer selected for the English football team |
1978 |
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Markov Affair |
1978 |
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Election victory for conservatives: Thatcher PM |
1979 |
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Labour government vote of no confidence - general election called, Conservative win |
1979 |
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Devolution for Scotland and Wales rejected in refurendums |
1979 |
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TUC publishes charter, 'Equality for Women within Trade Unions' |
1979 |
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Polaris replaced with Trident |
1979 |
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Partial nuclear meltdown at Three-Mile Island, NY |
1979 |
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David Attenborough Life on Earth broadcast on BBC |
1979 |