Social - Key Facts Flashcards
Poll Tax was remodelled as …
Council Tax
Industries that were privatised
- Coal Industry
- Railways
Private Finance Initiatives (PFI)
Public-private partnerships that meant private companies would fund infrastructure improvements and then deliver public services that the state would pay for
Citizen Charter
Attempted to give public service users more power the quality of the services they recieved by providing information about the standards they should expect
Cost of implementing the Poll Tax that had been wasted
£1.5 billion
Industry that Major wanted to privatise but ran into opposition
Post Office
Aspect of the Citizens Charter that became target of satire
Cones Hotline
Disease that meant British beef was banned in Europe
Mad Cow Disease
Number of mining pits closed
31
Something that Princess Diana did that had a profound social affect
Shook hands with a patient with AIDs at the Royal Middlesex Hospital
Gay Rights pressure group
Stonewall
Success of Stonewall in 1994
Reduction in the legal age of consent from 21 to 18
Agency set up to make sure that absent parents paid maintenance for their children
Child Support Agency
Nickname of AIDs
‘Gay Plague’
Name of the law which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities
Section 28
Book that prompted the introduction of Section 28
Jenny lives with Erin and Martin
Name of the pressure group that threatened the out gay clergy and MPs
Outrage!
Percentage increase in the number of babies born to unmarried parents
From 12% in the early 1980s to 30% in the early 1990s
Name of the person who led the campaign against the avaliability of contraceptive advice to girls under the age of consent without their parents knowledge
Victoria Gillick
Act that was promoted by Mary Whitehouse to make sure that videos had British film classifications attached
Video Recording Act 1994
Event that sparked criticism of the monarchy
Fire at Windsor Castle
The Queen agreed to …
Pay tax on her private income and a reduction of the civil list
Anti-Establishment culture
- Young British Artists
- Charles Saatchi’s exhibit at the Sensation Exhibition
Nickname of the 1988 and 1989 summers
Second Summer of Love
Government Act which gave police the power to break up free parties
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act
Drug that was used in the ‘second summer of love’
Ecstasty
Protests against which road development
Twyford Down M3 extension
Period of Feminism
Third-Wave Feminism
Undergroud movement by female ‘Punk’ bands
Riot Grrrl Movement
Band that led the ‘Girl Power’ movement
Spice Girls
First female Speaker of the House of Commons
Betty Boothroyd
Firest female Head of MI5
Stella Rimmington
Percentage of women of working age which were employed
68%
Percentage of employees that were women in 1996
50%
Percentage of Women’s Pay compared to Men
80%
Number of non-White MPs elected in 1987
4
Black Conservative Candidate that lost the 1992 General Election
John Taylor
Person who was murder in a racist attack in London
Stephen Lawrence
Author of the Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
