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Popular culture in Britain since 1945
Pr John Mullen
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DST + Examen + oral
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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
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1 General background
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1945
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1946
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1947
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1948 Berlin airlift Founding of the NHS
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1949 Founding of NATO Parliament Act: reduction of the power of the House of Lords
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1950 The stone of Scone is stolen Troops sent to fight in Korea
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1951 Churchill PM again The massive public housing programme continues
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1952
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Tenzing Norgay on Everest
1953 Coronation
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1954 Lord Montagu jailed for homosexual relations
Television Act will lead to end of BBC monopoly
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1955 Last woman to be hanged Anthony Eden PM
Greek Cypriot nationalists began to fight British rule
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1956 « Suez crisis » : failed invasion of Egypt
Health Minister rejects proposal for anti-smoking campaign
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1957 Macmillan PM Founding of CND Independence of Ghana
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1958 Radical reform of the House of Lords Fighting in Notting Hill
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1959
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1960 The Wind of Change
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1961 S Africa becomes a Republic
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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 …
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1963
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1964 Labour election victory Commons Harold Wilson: a new style of PM?
vote to abolish Capital punishment Harold Wilson: a new style of PM?
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1965 Grammar schools and Secondary modern schools phased out,
New leader of Conservative party
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Seamen’s strike 1966
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Sexual offences Act The Welsh Language Act was passed 1967
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1968 Enoch Powell’s « Rivers of Blood » speech
Women ministers authorized
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1969 Uk troops in Northern Ireland North sea Oil
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1970
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1971 Trade union density in the United Kingdom from 1900 to 2000
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1972 Saltley Gate coke works February 1972 Bloody Sunday
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1974 January to March: the three-day week
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1975 Elected leader of Conservative Party, Feb 1975
EEC referendum 1975
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1976 Harold Wilson resigns, April 1976
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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
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1977 The Silver Jubilee 1977 The Sex Pistols
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1979-1997 Conservative government
(Margaret Thatcher ; John Major )
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Privatizations: British gas, British Aerospace, British Telecom, Electricity board etc.
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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
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1981 Hunger strike
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1982
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March 1984 to March 1985: The Great Miners’ Strike 1984
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1990 : the Poll Tax and the Poll Tax Revolt
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1990-97 John Major’s premiership
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1993
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1997 : after eighteen years of Conservative government, Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister with his « New Labour » party
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1999 Macpherson report
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1997 : Referendums decide on much more autonomy for Wales and Scotland
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1998 Minimum Wage Act 2000 Freedom of Information Act
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1999: important reform of the House of Lords
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2000
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2004 Demonstration against the war in Iraq
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2010 : A second inquiry into Bloody Sunday
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David Cameron. Prime minister
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2012
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2014 Scottish Independence referendum
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June 2016 2016
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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.
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L’extrême droite voudrait en profiter
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Les antiracistes s’organisent
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Jeremy Corbyn
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Opinion polls before 2017 general election
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Opinion polls now
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