British Period study: Britain, 1951-97

Notting Hill riots (140 people arrested)

29th August- 5th of September 1958

1948 Immigration act royal assent (letting 800 million people from the commonwealth come to Britain)

30th July 1948

When was the illegal anti-nuke rally (prompted by Polaris sub entering Scottish waters) with 12,000 attendees happen

September 1961

profomo affair timeline

summer 1961 to Jan 1962

Profumo affair was revealed to the world

6th of June 1963

night of the long knives

13th July 1962

argyll divorce case

after marriage in march 1951, they divorced in 1963 after divorce because lady argyll had sex with 88 men (2 cabinet ministers including duncan Sandys- Churchill’s son in law and minister of defence) which exposed high-profile infidelity and scandal in British society.

1951 general election

25th October 1951

First hydrogen bomb in the UK

15th of may 1957

Steel nationalised

1949

NHS/Gas nationalsed

1948 (and 5th of July 1948)

bevanite rebellion

1951

timespan of CH’s 2nd time in office

26th October 1951- 5th of April 1954 (resigned because of strokes and heart attacks he kept secret, such as in June 1953)

Eden and Nassar met in Cairo

February 1955

time Egypt free of British troops

spring 1956

Einshower stopped payments to Nassar’s dam, so American access to dam blocked

19th July 1956

Israeli forces airdropped into Egypt

October 29th 1956

Hungarian uprising

October 23rd 1956

Antony eden resign as prime minster

January 9th 1957

nassar become president of Egypt

23rd of June 1956

Macmillan’s time in office

jan 10th 1957- oct 18th 1963

eden’s time in office

6th of April 1955- 9th of jan 1957

1955 general election

26th of may 1955

operation musketeer (anglo-french failed invasion of Egypt)

5th of November 1956

MacMillian’s time as chancellor

1955-57

MacMillian’s time as defence minster

1954-55

Macmillian’s time as housing minster

1951-54

Macmillian’s time as defence minster

1954-55

1959 general election

8th of October 1959- Macmillian won an unexpected majority of 20 seats

Nassau Agreement (JFK agreed to supply the UK with Polaris nuclear missiles)

21st December 1962

‘Never had it so good’ speech Mac gave in Bedford

20th of July 1957

private eye created

1961

when did the polaris sub (with 16 missiles in each one) arrive in holy loch- very near Glasgow

3rd of march 1961

Britain joined EEC

Jan 1st 1973

1964 general election

15th of oct 1964

1967 sexual offensces act royal assent

July 21st 1967

1966 election

31st march 1966-called to increase labour majority so he could make legislation pass quicker (won 98 seats)

National viewers and listeners association+Warwick Uni opened

1965

‘Clean up’ petition + deflation

1964

1965 race realtions act passing

8th of nov 1965

1968 race relations act passing

25th of October 1968

Robbins act passes

23rd October 1963

open uni started

23rd of April 1969

York+East Anglia uni opened

1963

Rhodesian civil war

4th July 1964- 12th dec 1979

when were American troops sent into Vietnam by Preisdent Johnson

march 8th 1965

when was the national plan printed

September 14th 1965

Deparment of Economic affairs abolished

Oct 1969

pound devalued 14% by Wilson

November 18th 1967

seaman strike that was a contrubitng factor to design to devalue the pound- exports damaged

1966

taxes raised in a brutal round and spending cuts

July 1967

when in place of strife debated in commons

24th feb 1969

30 tory MPs join labour cos of EEC

oct 1971

seldson man nickname originated cos heath met with ministers to discuss policies at seldson hotel

31st jan 1970

1972 local government act

26th of October 1972

decimal day

15th of feb 1971

1971 Industrial relations act passing

5th of August 1971

When did Nixon end the Bretton Woods system

National Industrial Relations Court (NIRC)+ Industrial Relations Committee (1971) established

Heath nationalises the airforce division of rolls Royce

1971

Brenton woods system- gold become basis for U.S. dollar, which was attached to other currencies)

1944

1972 miner strike

jan 9th-feb 28th 1972

15,000 pickters and protesters descend aganinst saltely gate

early feb 1972

when the Gov bailed out upper Clyde shipbuilders to cost of £35 million

feb 1972

ministry of industrial development established

April 1972

coal mining nationalised

1946

280,000 miners on strike, 7 weeks and regular power cuts

Jan 1972

17 English schools closed down

jan 10th 1972

Arab-israeli war

June 5th-10th 1967

when did syria and Egypt declare war against Israel

October 6th 1973

miners go on a no overtime ban with goal of exceeding gov limits (for their pay claim).

nov 12th 1973

3 day work week announced

13th of jan 1973

when did the three day work week take effect from

31st of jan 1973

81% of miners in favour of strike action

feb 1974

national mining union voted overwhelming for another strike

jan 1974

1974 general election (feb)

28th of feb 1974

1974 general election (oct)

10th of October 1974

1975 referendum about leaving EU

5th of June 1975

old Bailey bombing

march 8th 1973

unemployment at 1.3 million+ Stirling crisis- value propped up by buying the pound on foreign exchanges + when did a Russian journalist first call thatcher a ‘iron lady’

1976

when did Wilson announce his desire to retire

16th of march 1976

gov forced to seek help from IMF

sept 1976

lib-lab pact

23rd march 1977-7th of September 1978

ford strike dates

22nd September- 22nd november 1978

lorry strike start date in winter of discontent

jan 1979

winter of discontent time span

late September 1978-feb 1979

conference in bahama Callaghan attended

jan 4-7th 1979

1979 general election

3rd may 1979

thatcher tory leader after winning 146 votes in leadership election to heath’s 119.

11th feb 1975

the Thorpe affair + no of gov authorities fall from 2.5 million to 2.1 million

1975-79

Thomas Thorpe resigned

may 1976

Thomas Thorpe acquitted of charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder

may 1979

Thatcher education sectary

June 19th 1970-1974

Bobby Sands’s hunger strike in long Kesh

march 1st- may 5th 1981

Airey Neave’s IRA assignation

30th of march 1979

Ian Gow’s IRA assiantion

July 30th 1990

british airways nationalised

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Thatcher quote “There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families”

• shows how she didn’t believe that a society existed

1987

Brighton bomb

12th of October 1984

when thatcher began replacing prominent wets in her cabinets with drys + loxteth (liverpool), moss side (Manchester) riots

July 1981

SDP (social Democratic Party) announced by roy Jenkins

26th march 1981

Michael Foot elected head of labour

November 3rd 1980

Argentina's army invades the Falklands

2nd April 1982