We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Popular fashion, however, was less influenced by America and the ‘Teddy boys’ were a distinctively British phenomenon. Consequently unwanted babies were often given away for adoption or sent to institutions, either in Britain or in the Empire. Illegitmacy rates were far lower than today, partly because there was still a social stigma attached to single mothers and their offspring. Some basic commodities like butter, meat, tea and coal were still rationed and although bread was now freely available, the de-rationing of sweets and chocolates in 1949 had to be abandoned because demand was too great. Popular music was pre-‘rock and roll’, but was already dominated by American styles and performers.
Britain was the foremost world producer of ships and the leading European producer of coal, steel, cars and textiles. Not so in the 1950s and 1960s: Bonfire Night was a hands-on celebration with friends and family…Recycling was a way of life in the 1950s and 1960s. The London smog of 1952 lasted five days and killed more than 4,000 people from heart and lung diseases. Women were generally not expected to have proper careers, but to seek short-term employment before they married and had children.
It was fought with the U.S. intervention, basically to limit the spread of communism on Vietnamese soil. Children’s clothes were distinctively different from those of adults: shorts for boys and short skirts or tunics for girls. After this, a military regime was established in the region.In the year 1957, European Economic Community (EEC) was established that aimed at integrating its founding members economically, mainly by setting up a common market. Perhaps you remember the original rag and bone man, the daily deliveries by the milkman, or returning the ’empties’ to the off licence…For a woman, were the 1950s and 1960s the best of times or the worst of times?
The countryside was peppered with wartime military bases, many now abandoned, others reactivated in response to the Cold War.British society was still strongly influenced by war. Most grandfathers had served in the First World War, most fathers in the Second, and most young men were currently called up for two years of National Service.
Gas cost only 20 cents gallon.
Those who were better off were already adopting the material trappings and social trends which characterise British society now. Following military intervention by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., the Suez canal was nationalized and the position of England and France as global powers was weakened to a great extent.The so-called Rwandan Revolution/wind of destruction took root in 1959 in the form of ethnic violence between two rival groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis. Artists took inspiration from television, advertising, movies, etc.
Nevertheless the attraction of sex was clearly apparent both in advertising (especially for films, books and clothes) and on the streets where prostitutes openly solicited for business until the 1959 Street Offences Act. Related quizzes can be found here: 1950s Music Quizzes Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, informed President Harry Truman that the communists and their supporters had penetrated the State Department in substantial numbers. The English-speaking industrial population of south Wales had little in common with the Welsh-speaking ruralists of the west and north, while the industrial and partly Catholic proletariat of Glasgow felt no kinship with the Edinburgh or Presbyterian elites.In England, the Second World War had revived a sense of Englishness which was reflected, for example, in Nikolaus Pevsner’s lectures on ‘The Englishness of English Art’ and the series of books on English heritage published by Collins. Even the long ailing textile industry was revived by the introduction of synthetic fibres like nylon.
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