1. Popular culture in Britain since 1945
Pr John Mullen

2. DST + Examen + oral

3. Curriculum
1 General historical background
2 What is popular culture? What is British popular culture ?
Theory and analysis
3 Art, Photography, street art, etc,
4 The history of British cinema
5 The history of British popular music

4. 1 General background

5. 1945

6. 1946

7. 1947

8. 1948
Berlin airlift
Founding of the NHS

9. 1949
Founding of NATO
Parliament Act: reduction of the power of the House of Lords

10. 1950
The stone of Scone is stolen
Troops sent to fight in Korea

11. 1951
Churchill PM again
The massive public housing programme continues

12. 1952

13. Tenzing Norgay on Everest
1953
Coronation

14. 1954 Lord Montagu jailed for homosexual relations
Television Act will lead to end of BBC monopoly

15. 1955 Last woman to be hanged Anthony Eden PM
Greek Cypriot nationalists began to fight British rule

16. 1956 « Suez crisis » : failed invasion of Egypt
Health Minister rejects proposal for anti-smoking campaign

17. 1957
Macmillan PM
Founding of CND
Independence of Ghana

18. 1958
Radical reform of the House of Lords
Fighting in Notting Hill

19. 1959

20. 1960
The Wind of Change

21. 1961
S Africa becomes a Republic

22. 1962
An Act to make temporary provision for controlling the immigration into the United Kingdom of Commonwealth citizens; to authorise the deportation from the United Kingdom of certain Commonwealth citizens convicted of offences and recommended by the court for deportation …

23. 1963

24. 1964 Labour election victory Commons Harold Wilson: a new style of PM?
vote to
abolish
Capital
punishment
Harold Wilson: a new style of PM?

25. 1965 Grammar schools and Secondary modern schools phased out,
New leader of Conservative party

26. Seamen’s strike
1966

27. Sexual offences Act
The Welsh Language Act was passed
1967

28. 1968 Enoch Powell’s « Rivers of Blood » speech
Women ministers authorized

29. 1969
Uk troops in Northern Ireland
North sea Oil

31. 1970

32. 1971
Trade union density in the United Kingdom
from 1900 to 2000

33. 1972
Saltley Gate coke works February 1972
Bloody Sunday

34. 1974
January to March: the three-day week

35. 1975 Elected leader of Conservative Party, Feb 1975
EEC referendum 1975

36. 1976
Harold Wilson resigns, April 1976

37. James Callaghan Prime minister 1976-1979 (after Wilson’s second term 1974-6)
1975 arrival of North Sea oil
1976 IMF crisis
1976 Race Relations Act
1978 Winter of discontent

38. 1977 The Silver Jubilee
1977 The Sex Pistols

39. 1979-1997 Conservative government
(Margaret Thatcher ; John Major )

40. Privatizations: British gas, British Aerospace, British Telecom, Electricity board etc.

41. Laws about trade union activity are passed in 1980, 1982, 1984, 1988 and 1993
Strict limitations are gradually placed on picketing, on solidarity strikes, on strike ballots and on the closed shop.
1980 Steel strike

42. 1981 Hunger strike

43. 1982

44. March 1984 to March 1985:
The Great Miners’ Strike
1984

45. 1990 : the Poll Tax and the Poll Tax Revolt

46. 1990-97 John Major’s premiership

47. 1993

48. 1997 : after eighteen years of Conservative government, Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister with his « New Labour » party

49. 1999 Macpherson report

50. 1997 : Referendums decide on much more autonomy for Wales and Scotland

51. 1998 Minimum Wage Act
2000 Freedom of Information Act

52. 1999: important reform of the House of Lords

53. 2000

54. 2004 Demonstration against the war in Iraq

55. 2010 : A second inquiry into Bloody Sunday

56. David Cameron. Prime minister

58. 2012

60. 2014
Scottish Independence referendum

61. June 2016
2016

63. A la surprise générale la nouvelle dirigeante du parti conservateur et donc première ministre, Theresa May n’est pas choisie parmi les politiciens très connus.

64. L’extrême droite voudrait en profiter

65. Les antiracistes s’organisent

68. Jeremy Corbyn

69. Opinion polls before 2017 general election

70. Opinion polls now