How Far Did Social Attitudes Change In the Years 1955-75?

How Far Did Social Attitudes Change In the Years 1955-75?

1. P3:Youth Culture

   • 'teenager'
   • Fashion
     • Mary Quant-Bazzaar ( 1st teenage youth store)
     • Skinny-rib jumpers, knee high boots, white detachable collars,Mini skirt
     • Mods,Rockers,Beatniks,hippies,skinheads
   • Technology
     • Mini Cooper
     • Records/Portable record players
       • Sex & Drugs
         • Mary Whitehouse
     • Radios
     • Films and Television
       • Cathy Come Home (1966)
       • That Was The Week That Was
       • Coronation Street
     • Music
       • The Beatles
       • The Rolling Stones

2. P2:Women

   • Abortion/Legalisation of Abortion
   • Preventing Unwanted Pregnancies
   • Changes to family life
   • Unmarried Mothers in the 1950's & 60's
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   • Work/Wages
   • Education
   • Home
     • Politics

3. P1:The liberalisation of Society

   • Voting
     • Labour Government
       • Roy Jenkins
   • The Abolition of Penalty (1969)-Life imprisonment
     • Derek Bently-19,learning disabilty,shooting, (Jan 1953)
   • Homosexuality
   • Ruth Ellis,1955,abuse,murder,last women to be hanged
     • Timothy Evans,1950,murder,daughter

4. Acts

   • Equal Pay Act 1970
   • The abortion act 1967
     • Immigration Act 1971
       • Race Relations Act 1965/1968
   • The divorce reform act 1969
     • commonwealth Immigration Act 1962/1968
       • British Nationality Act 1948
         • (800mil people,commonwealth,get a citizenship)
   • Sexual Offences act 1967
     • Representation to the people Act (1969)
       • (Voting 21-18)
     • (Decriminalised homosexuality)-Except for the armed foces/nothern Ireland

5. P5:Immigration

   • Housing
   • Newspapers
   • Employment
   • Culture
   • Youth
   • Enoch Powell 'Rivers of Blood Speech'
   • Prejudice & discrimination

6. P6:Was the 'swinging sixties' real for all

   • Poverty
     • Organisation Shelter

7. P4:Violence and rebellion

   • Mods and Rockers clash
   • Battle of Brighton (1964)
   • Notting Hill Race Riots (1958)
   • Rebellion against the stricter values of the older generation