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Festival of Britain

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1951

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Conservative election victory returns Churchill as prime minister

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1951

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Britain’s first atomic bomb test

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1952

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Mau Mau rebellion against British rule in Kenya

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1952

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Mass television audience for coronation of Elizabeth II

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1953

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Steel and transport denationalised

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1953

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British withdrawal from Egypt

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1954

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End of food rationing

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1954

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Election victory for Conservatives under Eden

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1955

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Launch of ITV as commercial rival to the BBC

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1955

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Failure of Anglo-French invasion at Suez

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1956

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Financial crisis caused by Suez crisis

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1956

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EEC formed without Britain

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1956

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Anthony Eden replaced as prime minister by Harold Macmillan

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1957

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Independence achieved by Ghana and Malaya

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1957

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Formation of CND

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1958

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Serious anti-immigration rioting in Notting Hill

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1958

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Motorway system opens with the M6 Preston bypass

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1958

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3rd Conservative election victory

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1959

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Blue Streak missile abandoned in favour of American Polaris

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1960

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Macmillan’s ‘wind of change’ speech

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1960

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Creation of EFTA as an alternative to the EEC

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1960

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End of National Service

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1960

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Britain’s application to join the EEC submitted

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1961

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Cold War tensions intensify with building of the Berlin Wall

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1961

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Macmillan’s cabinet reshuffle, the ‘Night of the Long Knives’

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1962

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Launch of That Was The Week That Was on BBC television

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1962

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Commonwealth Immigrants Act restricts immigration

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1962

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Britain’s EEC application blocked by de Gaulle

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1963

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Independence granted to Kenya

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1963

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Profumo scandal

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1963

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Resignation of Macmillan; Douglas Home becomes prime minister

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1963

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Labour election victory under Harold Wilson

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1964

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Start of Rhodesia crisis

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1964

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Death penalty abolished

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1965

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England win the World Cup at Wembley

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1966

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Labour election victory with increased majority

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1966

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‘Swinging London’ features in Time Magazine

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1966

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Nationalisation of iron and steel

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1951

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Deep budget cuts in military commitments in East of Suez

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1967

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Devaluation of sterling by the Wilson government

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1967

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Liberalisation of laws on abortion and homosexuality

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1967

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Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech against mass immigration

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1967

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Start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland

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1969

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Open University established

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1969

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Election victory for Conservatives under Edward Heath

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1970

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Equal Opportunities Act passed

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1970

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Decimalisation of British currency

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1971

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Reform of the divorce laws

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1971

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‘Bloody Sunday’ in Derry

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1972

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Unemployment above one million for the first time since 1930s

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1972

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Yom Kippur War causes oil crisis

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1973

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British accession to the EEC alongside Ireland and Denmark

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1973

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Sunningdale Agreement for power sharing in Northern Ireland

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1973

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Three-day week imposed

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1974

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Heath narrowly defeated in February election

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1974

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Collapse of Sunningdale Agreement after Ulster Workers’ Council strike

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1974

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Victory for Labour in the October general election

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1974

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EEC referendum results in 2:1 majority for the ‘yes’ vote

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1975

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Heath replaced as Conservative leader by Margaret Thatcher

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1975

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Sex Discrimination Act passed

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1975

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