The Liberal Agenda!!!!!!!

Question 1

What is the overarching objective of Communism of the marxist leninist tradition

Answer 1

To have women and minorities in Star Wars films

Question 2

Who was the main advocate for liberal reforming legislation in the 1960s

Answer 2

Roy Jenkins

Question 3

Why were private members bills important in the 60s

Answer 3

Backbench MPs could propose bills on social issue reform, which weere successful because Jenkins, as home secretary was sympathetic

Question 4

Which women, hanged in 1955 after killing her abusive boyfriend, was pointed to as a reason to abolish the death penalty

Answer 4

Ruth Ellis-in 1957 the Tories already reduced the number of offences carrying the death penalty yet she was still executed

Question 5

When was the death penalty suspended and then abolished in the UK and who was the main proponent

Answer 5

suspended in 1965 for a trial period of 5 years and permanently stopped in 1969 due to the campagining of Sydney Silverman

Question 6

When was the beating of prisoners abolished

Answer 6

1967

Question 7

When was the divorce reform act passed and what did it entail

Answer 7

1969- Divorce was now allowed following an irretrievable breakdown of a marriage e.g. lived apart for a certain number of years. This made divorce more accessible to those in lower classe, as before infidelity had to be proven, with a costly and specialised court process.

Question 8

How did the the number of divorces change following the reform

Answer 8

from 2 of every thousand marriages in the 50s to 10 of every thousand in the 70s

Question 9

When was abortion legalised and who was the main proponent

Answer 9

1967-David Steel with Jenkins allowing an all night commons sitting to pass it

Question 10

How many illegal abortions were performed a year before ‘67

Answer 10

between 100,00 and 200,000 with 35,000 hospitalizations a year as a result

Question 11

Which disaster contributed to the reforming of abortion

Answer 11

Thalidomide

Question 12

How did the no. of abortions increase after the act

Answer 12

4 of every 100 live briths in 1968 to around 18 of every live births in 1975, 141,000 abortions

Question 13

When were homosexual acts decriminalized and who was the main proponent

Answer 13

in 1967 the Sexual Offences Act was passed decriminalosing homosexual acts as long as both partners were over 21 conesnting and in private. Leo Abse with jenkins helped pioneer it.

Question 14

What educational issues did wilsons first goverment face

Answer 14

Based on the Robbins Commitee(1961), Britain was dound to be lagging behind its european counterparts in stem development and provision of Uni courses and too much social science and not enough stem (who the fuck would even take a uni course thats not STEM you want to end up homeless or something lol)

Question 15

What did Wilson most want to be remembered for and who waas the main proponent of it

Answer 15

The Open University and Jennie Lee

Question 15

How did Wilson reform education within the UK

Answer 15

Polytechnics replaced Colleges of Technology with a focus on teaching and learning applied and employable schools skills rather than research in order for the worker drones to be able to generate more shareholder value for the 1% ☭
Many new Universities were founded in the ’60s including Warwick York Lancaster Bath and charters given to other

this lead to much more accessible higher education which along with the open univeristy attempted to alleviate the middle and upper class domination of higher education, who still gravitated towards the old universities so perhaps parity was not achieved

Question 16

When did the Open Univeristy begin its courses

Answer 16

Established HQ in ‘69 and first courses started in ‘71

Question 17

What was the open university

Answer 17

Through radio and tv allowing people to pursue higher education; originally known as the Univeristy of the Air(harold wilson was pretentious-get it cos radio!!!!) by 1980 had 70,000 students-great success and still around today
especially good in supporting the marginalised who wouldnt have traditionally attended uni