64-70 Society

Question 1

TV

Answer 1

-1961, 75% had a tv and by 1971 it was 91%
-bbc 2 launched april 1964, first colour tv july 1967
-23% of leisure time by 1969

Question 2

Radio

Answer 2

-development of cheap portable radios, car stereos
-radio 1 opened sep 1967, tony blackburn presenter

Question 3

The sun

Answer 3

-the sun launched 1964 replaced the daily herald
-1969 bought by rupert murdoch

Question 4

Leisure time

Answer 4

-diy and gardening became popular
-cookery, knitting still popular
-live theatre, events and football shrank in popularity

Question 5

Car ownership

Answer 5

-car used for 77% of journeys by 1974
-bus, coach and train travel declined as a result

Question 6

Holidays

Answer 6

-34 million in 1961, 41 million by 1971
-4 million abroad 1961, 7 million by 1971
-britannia airways formed 1964
-largely for middle classes due to high prices
-package holidays 4% 1966 to 8.4% 1971

Question 7

Tech developments

Answer 7

-1969 US landed on the moon
-post office tower for telecommunications 1965
-development of concorde

Question 8

Theatre censorship

Answer 8

-plays had to gain a license from lord chamberlain
-backbencher george strauss and jenkins passed bill to abolish censorship 1968
-members of hair faced audience naked 1968

Question 9

Film

Answer 9

-mid 1960s more daring, darling (1965), alfie (1966)
-screen violence, sex became more acceptable

Question 10

Feminist novels

Answer 10

-‘the feminine mystique’ betty friedan 1963
-‘women:the longest revolution’ juliet mitchell 1966
-‘the female eunuch’ jermaine greer 1970

Question 11

women in work/education

Answer 11

-28% of higher education students by 1970
-5% of women reached managerial positions
-most jobs in service sector with low pay/prospects
-girls frequently left school at the minimum age

Question 12

Family planning act

Answer 12

-1967 allowed local authorities to provide contraceptives and contraceptive advice
-number of illegitimate births 5.8% 1960 to 8.2% 1970

Question 13

First womens lib conference

Answer 13

-held in oxford feb 1970 4 demands made:
-equal pay, free contraception/abortion, equal jobs/education, free 24 hour childcare

Question 14

Further womens acts

Answer 14

-matrimonial property 1970
-womens work at home/office should be accounted for
-1970 equal pay act didnt come into force till 1975

Question 15

Critics of ‘the permissive society’

Answer 15

-catholic church hostile to contraceptive pill
-mary whitehouse set up national viewers and listeners association 1965, had 100k members

Question 16

Drug use

Answer 16

-cocaine and heroin 10x more common in 1960s
-dangerous drugs act 1967 made weed/coke illegal
-wootton report 1968 recommended weed legalisation
-1970 drug supplying max sentence of 14 years

Question 17

Youths moral standards

Answer 17

-alcohol tobacco and caffeine used more than drugs
-1969 survey showed young people spent more time listening to music at home than at clubs/festivals

Question 18

New trends for the youth

Answer 18

-listened to popular music through radio one
-ready steady go (1963) and top of the pops (1964) spread new trends in clothes, music and dance

Question 19

New youth subcultures

Answer 19

-skinheads with braces, doc martens emerged late 1960s
-hippies embraced flower power and trends from america like love, peace, environmentalism

Question 20

Vietnam war protests

Answer 20

-17 march 1968 violent scenes at an anti war demonstration
-28 march another violent with 200 arrested
-final one oct 1968 30,000 took park more peaceful

Question 21

Racist attitudes

Answer 21

-north london survey in 1965
-1/5 would refuse to work with black people/asians
-1/2 would refuse to live next door
-9/10 disagreed with mixed marriages

Question 22

first race relations act

Answer 22

-1965
-forbade discrimination in public about skin colour
-discrimination in housing/employment excluded
-race relations board would mediate between sides

Question 23

Rivers of blood speech

Answer 23

-enoch powell in response to arrival of kenyan asians
-april 1968 complained about the constant immigration

Question 24

Reaction to rivers of blood speech

Answer 24

-heath sacked him from shadow cabinet, didnt speak
-strikes from dockers/meat porters in response to sacking and protest march to downing street
-75% of population supported what he said

Question 25

Second race relations act

Answer 25

-1968
-banned racial discrimination in housing, employment and other social services

Question 26

Problems with 2nd race relations act

Answer 26

-complaints against police excluded from the law
-race relations board only upheld 10% of 1241 complaints about discriminatory employment to jan 1972