7 Social and Cultural change 1960s
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- Social and Cultural change 1960s
- Mass media
- TV became available everywhere
- 1970s 90% of population had a TV in their home
- Hugh Greene revised BBC spending and guidelines
- ITV 1955 allowed advertising to expand
- Transistor radios, cheap, portable
- Pirate Radio
- Leisure activities
- TV 23% of leisure time
- DIY
- Gardening
- Cooking and knitting remained
- Live events suffered
- Car ownership increased
- Cheap holidays
- Scientific developments
- Concorde
- Post office tower 1965
- Fashion
- Contraceptive Pill
- Household appliances
- Reduction in censorship
- Playwrights began to experiment
- Lord Chamberlain
- Theatrical censorship abolished 1968
- Films strict categorisation by BBFC
- Films grew more daring, sex and violence more acceptable
- Female equality
- Old beliefs remained strong
- 1970 only 5% women in management
- Second wave feminism
- Girls left school early, married early
- Family planning act 1967
- Could get jobs as secretaries but not expected to be working mothers
- 'Permissive society'
- Catholic church unhappy with the pill
- Teen magazines spread new ideas
- Mary Whitehouse campaigned to no avail
- Hippies, free love, drugs
- Dangerous drug act 1967
- Exaggeration, most young people virgins on marriage
- Youth Culture
- Clashed with parents over fashion, music, standards
- Concern from older generation, out of proportion
- London fashion capital, women trousers and men velvet
- Pirate radio
- Skinheads and Hippies
- Anti-Vietnam
- 1968 violent anti-Vietnam demonstration in London
- Battle of Grosvenor Square
- Sussex uni, speaker covered in red paint
- 2 Tory MPs attacked
- Immigration
- 1965 North London survey 1/2 didn't want to live next to a black person
- 1965 Race Relations Act, no discrimination in public
- 1968 Commonwealth immigration act, 'Rivers of Blood'
- Powell sacked, strikes, 75% agree with him
- Race Relations Act 1968 no discrimination in housing and employment
- Race Relations board only 10% of complaints
- POSITIVES Notting Hill 1964, new foods, music, fashion
- Mass media
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