social and cultural change

• How did leisure activities develop?

  • magazines and television programmes
  • DIY around the household became more common
  • gardening - hovercraft technology
• Where did people stay for their holidays?

  • Blackpool
  • Butlin's Holiday Camp - Caravanning
• What were some problematic reasons for these popular holiday destinations?

  • Raw sewage in the sea at Blackpool beach
  • Clashes in moral outlook with visiting teenagers and traditional familes
  • Holidaying abroad was popular such as going to Spain - Europe's top holiday destination.
• How did technology and science develop?

  • HAL 9000 - computer system that controlled spacecraft
  • technology developed in areas such as hospitals, gardens, photography
• how did female equality progress?

  • contraceptive pill became available to single women in 1967
• What issues circulated around the equal pay for women?

  • Women working at the Deganeham plant were paid 85% of the men's wages where other ford plants were being paid 92%
  • The Labour Manifesto 1964 called for a charter of right for all employees, including the 'right to equal pay for equal work'.
  • The Trades Union Congress found a resolution for equal pay for equal work in 1965.
• When was the equal pay act introduced?

  1970 - came into effect 1975
• What buildings were made?

  • BT tower
  • Post office tower
  • Birmingham shopping market
• What is Concord and what happened to it?

  • Supersonic aircraft
  • made its first flight in 1968