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30's - 90's Britain + Poets
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⟶ Atualizado 8 set 2017 ⟶
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WW2 began
WW2 ended
end of rationing
Conservative government elected
Labour government elected
Conservative government elected
Labour government elected
Conservative government elected
Labour government elected
Labour (Margaret Thatcher) elected
contraceptive pill available for sale
Sexual Offences Act - decriminalisation of homosexuality
peak of the Hippie movement
Education Act ensured free education for children up to 14 years old
comprehensive schools introduced
1st Ideal Home exhibition
NHS launched
Thatcher becomes Conservative leader
beginning of miners' strike due to Thatchers attempts to break trade unions
falkland wars
cambridge awards its first formal degree to a woman
'The Female Eunuch' (Germaine Greer) published
Equal Pay Act Passed
Virago Press set up
NHS Act
Abortion Act passed
1st women's liberation conference
Beveridge Report published - beginnings of welfare state
teenage culture grew away from that of their parents
Fashion and models, like Twiggy, became v. popular for teenagers
alternative culture popularised (eg. Hippies, Punks, Skinheads)
Larkin Became involved with the Movement at Oxford
'Ultimatum' published in The Listener
fist solo collection , 'The North Ship', published
'A Girl in Winter' published
graduates with a 1st in english
'Jill' published
'XX Poems' privately published
Becomes librarian at University of Hull
'The Whitsun Weddings' published
awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
'All What Jazz' published
'High Windows' published
Awarded CBE
last poem, 'Aubade', published
Duffy born
moves to Stafford
sends 1st collection of poetry to a publisher
attended Liverpool University
'Standing Female Nude' published
'Selling Manhattan' published
'The Other Country' published
work shortage gave job opportunities to women
government agreed to phase in equal pay over the next 6 years
Tripartite education system introduced
'Mean Time' published
poetry published by ‘Outposts’
began to work as poetry critic at 'The Guardian'