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What aimed to change the Lords

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Attendence expenses

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Name of the act that created life peers to bring new blood and eminent people into the Lords

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Life Peerage Act 1958

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Name of the cases that hightened controversy around the death penalty

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  • Bentley
  • Evans
  • Ellis
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Who led the pressure group against the death penalty

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Arthur Koestler

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Name of the Labour MP that introduced a Private Memebers bill to suspend executions

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Sidney Silverman

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Name of the act which significantly reduced the categories of murder and allowed the defence of ‘diminished responsibility’

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Homocide Act 1957

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Name of the act that aimed to rationalise the Lunacy Acts and destigmatise mental health

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Mental Health Act 1959

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Act that decriminalised attempted suicide

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Suicide Act 1961

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9
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Act that backfired massively

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Rent Act 1957

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10
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Name of the horrible landlord

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Peter Rachman

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Name of the report that increased the school leaving age

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Crowther Report 1959

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12
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Number of new hosuing units built under the Conservatives

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1 million

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Number of slum dwellings cleared under the Conservatives

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253,000

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Number of miles of motorway built under the Conservatives

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260 Miles

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Act that gave government aid to certain areas

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Local Employment Act 1960

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Number of jobs the Local Employment Act created

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900,000

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Name of the act which aimed to moderise the railways

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Transport Act 1962

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Name of people involved in political corruption of the ‘New Towns’

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  • T Dan Smith (Mr Newscastle)
  • John Poulson
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19
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Percentage rise in education spending

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10%

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Name of the report which recommended a massive expansion of higher education

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Robbins Report 1963

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Number of universities founded in 1961 to 1965

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Number of immigrants arriving in Britain in 1961

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Name of the act which meant immigrants could only enter if they had jobs or skills needed

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Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962

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Number of immigrant coming into the UK in 1964

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Number of emigrants in the 1960s
1.92 Million | Inward Migration was 1.25 Million
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Nickname of economically insecure, white, working class, young men
Teds
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Name of Racist Groups
* White Defence League * League of Empire Loyalists * National Socialist Movement
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Name of the Cambridge graduate that could not get a job
Eric Braithwaite
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Who was murdered in Notting Hill in May 1959
Kelso Cochrane
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Event that highlighted the racist employment practices in the UK
Bristol Bus Boycott
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Conservative MP that played the 'race card' in the Smethwick Constituency in the 1964 General Election
Peter Griffiths
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Right Wing Politicians
Oswald Mosley
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How much did crime increase
More than doubled
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Name of the 'respectable' criminals
Kray Twins
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Number of teenager in Brtiain in 1959
5 million - 10% of the Population
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Name of the two youth cultural sub groups
* Mods * Rockers
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Where did riots between the Mods and Rockers in May 1964
* Clacton * Margate * Brighton
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Books that illustrated social realism
* A Clockword Orange - Anthony Burgess * Cathy Come Home - Ken Loach
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Name of media that broke down social taboos
* Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney * Victim
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Name of media that increased satire
* Beyond the Fringes * Private Eye
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Name of the Trial which ended press censorhip in the UK
Lady Chatterley Trial
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Who led the campaign against immorality and depravity
Mary Whitehouse
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Number of nobility in Macmillan's government
* Duke * Marques * Three Earls
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Number of nobility in Macmillan's government
* Duke * Marques * Three Earls
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Name of the sociologists that attacked British class
* Richard Hoggart * CP Snow
45
Things that increase women's lives in the home
Labour-saving devices
46
Percentage of households owning a washing machine and refrigerator
54% and 58%
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Name for the Hotpoint washing machine
The Liberator
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Women's movement that was beginning to pick up
Second-Wave feminism
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Benefit that was paid to families that had stay at home mothers
Family Allowances

History Paper 2: Section 3 - Macmillan (6 decks)

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