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Dat e EventDateEvent DateEventDateEvent 1918Representation of the people act – men over 21 vote, women over 30 (who owned property) 1918Education act 1919Sex Disqualification Act1922First BBC Radio broadcast 1919Red Clyde side, Glasgow 1919Ministry of health established 1920Alien Orders Act 1927Cinematograph films act 1919- 20 Post war Boom followed by slump1920Unemployment insurance act, 1921 Amended 1925Special Restrictions Act (Coloured and Alien Seamen) 1930Road traffic act 1922DGL resigns, replaced by Bonar Law1926Hadow Report 1936BuF march in EastEnd London1933Walthamstow stadium opened 1923Baldwin Conservative PM 1929Local Government act1937Matrimonial Causes Act 1934Mersey tunnel opened 1924 Jan - Oct First Labour, Ramsay Macdonald1931 National economy act1948British Nationality Act 1934Road traffic act 1924Conservative Baldwin 1934Unemployment act 1948Arrival of Empire Windrush 1936First Butlins 1926General strike1935Peckham pioneer health centre 1958Notting Hill Riots 1937BBC broadcast football matches 1928Representation of the people act – women over 21 (equal rights) 1939Evacuation began 1957Wolfenden Report Published 1939Great North road opened 1929 Aug Labour Macdonald – flapper election1939Emergency medical services created 1959Obscene Publications Act 1940Creation of the ministry of food 1929 Oct Wall Street Crash1940Food rationing introduced 1960Lady Chatterley Trial 1944Housing & temporary accommodation act 1931National Government – height of depression 1942Beveridge report 1961Contraceptive Pill Introduced For Married Woman 1946New town's act 1931Means test1944Government white paper on Heath 1962Commonwealth Immigration Act 1946Bread rationing introduced 1935Macdonald resigns, Baldwin PM 1944Butler Education act1963John Profumo Resignation 1951Opening of the festival of Britain 1936Abdication1946National insurance act1965Race Relations Act 1953Coronation 8 million viewers 1937Chamberlain PM Conservative 1946Industrial injuries act1965National Viewers And Listeners Association Founded 1959M1 motorway opened 1940Wartime Coalition, Churchill led1946 family allowances came into effect 1967Sexual Offences Act 1963Beaching report published 1945Attlee Labour landslide 146 majority1948 NHS created 1968‘Rivers Of Blood’ Speech By Enoch Powell 196380,000 Slums in Manchester 1946Nationalisation of major industries1959 Mental Health Act 1968Dagenham Sewing Machinists 1964Mods and Rockers vandalise seaside 1951Conservative Churchill 1959 Crowther report 1968Race Relations Act 1966Housing charity shelter founded 1955Eden Conservative PM 1962 Macmillan's hospital plan 1968Commonwealth Immigration Act 1965Full employment 1956 Suez Crisis1963 Newsom report 1969Divorce Reform Act 1966World Cup final 1957Harold Macmillan Conservative Jan, July ‘Never had it so good’ speech 1963 Robbins report 1970Equal Pay Act 1967Radio One first broadcast 1963Profumo scandal, Douglas Home Conservative PM 1965 The Crosland circular1970The Female Eunuch By Germaine Greer Published 19677.5 million below poverty line 1964Labour Harold Wilson 1967 Abortion act 1971Immigration Act 1970First Glastonbury 1970Conservative Edward Heath 1970 National Insurance act 1973First Rape Crisis Centre Opened 1972Sports council of Great Britain established 1973OPEC oil crisis, Miner strike 1971 First students enrolled in the Open University 1974National Women's Aid Federation Established 198113 Million travelled abroad - cheap 1974Heath 3 day working week 1973 NHS reorganisation act 1975Sex Discrimination Act 1976Callaghan Labour1975 Child benefits act 1976Race Relations Act 1978- 9 Winter of discontent 1976 Education act 1976Domestic violence and matrimonial proceedings act 1979Thatcher conservative

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