Society (+ Domestic Policies)

Question 1

Private Members’ Bills

Answer 1

Backbenchers forwarded bills and the sympathetic Roy Jenkins saw about passing them through

Question 2

When was the abolition of the death penalty? Who pushed for this?

Answer 2

finalised in 1969 - Sidney Silverman

Question 3

How much support was there for hanging amongst the public in the 1960s?

Answer 3

Less than 60%

Question 4

Who escaped the death penalty?

Answer 4

The Moors Murderers as they were apprehended 4 weeks after the suspension

Question 5

Divorce Reform Act

Answer 5

1969 - allowed for a ‘no fault’ divorce. Couples could now divorce on the grounds that they had lived apart for two or more years and both wished to divorce or if they had lived apart for five and one wished to divorce

Question 6

Who pushed for the Divorce Reform Act?

Answer 6

Leo Abse

Question 7

Before 1969 what were the grounds on which women could file for divorce?

Answer 7

adultery, desertion, drunkenness and insanity

Question 8

Abortion Act

Answer 8

1967 - legalised abortion

Question 9

How many backstreet abortions were there estimated to have been prior to 1967?

Answer 9

100 000 per year

Question 10

Who pushed for the Abortion Act and what else may have been behind its ratification?

Answer 10

David Steel - the thalidomide crisis between 1953 and 1966

Question 11

Sexual Offences Act

Answer 11

1967 - legalised homosexual relations for those over the age of 21. Was only implemented in England and Wales as opposition in Scotland and NI was too great

Question 12

Who promoted the Sexual Offences Act?

Answer 12

Leo Abse and Lord Arran

Question 13

Who became Education Minister in 1965?

Answer 13

Tony Crosland

Question 14

Robbins Report

Answer 14

1963 - pushed for the opening of more public funded universities

Question 15

When was the Open University opened?

Answer 15

1969

Question 16

What were universities now more focused on?

Answer 16

Teaching as opposed to research

Question 17

How many comprehensive schools were there by 1970?

Answer 17

1145

Question 18

What did some grammar schools become?

Answer 18

Direct Grant Schools

Question 19

What replaced colleges of technology?

Answer 19

Polytechnics

Question 20

By 1968 how many polytechnics and universities were there?

Answer 20

30 polytechnics and 56 unis

Question 21

How many students did the Open Uni have by 1980?

Answer 21

over 70 000 and was awarding more degrees than oxford and cambridge combined

Question 22

How many homes had televisions in the 60s?

Answer 22

90%

Question 23

When did Monty Python’s flying circus air?

Answer 23

1969

Question 24

When was the sun launched?

Answer 24

1964

Question 25

Theatre Act

Answer 25

1968 - abolished censorship of dramatic works

Question 26

What leisure activity experienced a spike? What was this supported by?

Answer 26

Gardening and this was perpetuated through the establishment of Gardeners' World

Question 27

Growth in holidays abroad 1966 - 1971?

Answer 27

4% to 8.4%

Question 28

When did single women gain access to the pill?

Answer 28

1967

Question 29

Dagenham Strike

Answer 29

1968 - women at Ford were paid 85% of men's wages whereas they were paid 92% at other plants. They went on strike an this brought about the 1970 Equal Pay Act

Question 30

How many voted for liberalising legislation to be a priority in the New Society poll 1969?

Answer 30

5%

Question 31

What did Mary Whitehouse launch in 1964? What did this become in 1965?

Answer 31

Clean Up TV Campaign - became the National Viewers and Listeners Association

Question 32

Race Relations Act 1968

Answer 32

Made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of ethnicity or national origins within real estate or employment

Question 33

When did Anti-Vietnam war riots begin?

Answer 33

1966

Question 34

Race Relations Act 1965

Answer 34

Made discrimination in public or promotion of racial hate illegal. Also prompted the creation of the Race Relations Board.

Question 35

Race Relations Board

Answer 35

1966 - intended to deal with complaints of racial discrimination and the first chairman was Mark Bonham Carter.

Question 36

Rivers of Blood

Answer 36

1968 by Enoch Powell

Question 37

Commonwealth Immigration Act

Answer 37

1968 - amended the 1962 act

Question 38

Drugs

Answer 38

1960s saw a rise in people experimenting with psychedelics and the middle class became particularly infatuated with cannabis. There was an overall growth in hippies and counter-culture

Question 39

LSE protest

Answer 39

1967 - staff and students organised a 10 day occupation of the administration block in protest of the appointment of Walter Adams as director

Question 40

Militant Tendency

Answer 40

A Marxist faction formed in 1964 with the aim of revolutionising Labour policies