Dat Event Date Event Date Event Date Event
e
1918 Representation of the people act – 1918 Education act 1919 Sex Disqualification Act 1922 First BBC Radio
men over 21 vote, women over 30 broadcast
(who owned property)
1919 Red Clyde side, Glasgow 1919 Ministry of health 1920 Alien Orders Act 1927 Cinematograph
established films act
1919- Post war Boom followed by slump 1920 Unemployment 1925 Special Restrictions Act 1930 Road traffic act
20 insurance act, 1921 (Coloured and Alien Seamen)
Amended
1922 DGL resigns, replaced by Bonar Law 1926 Hadow Report 1936 BuF march in EastEnd London 1933 Walthamstow
stadium opened
1923 Baldwin Conservative PM 1929 Local Government act 1937 Matrimonial Causes Act 1934 Mersey tunnel
opened
1924 First Labour, Ramsay Macdonald 1931 National economy act 1948 British Nationality Act 1934 Road traffic act
Jan -
Oct
1924 Conservative Baldwin 1934 Unemployment act 1948 Arrival of Empire Windrush 1936 First Butlins
1926 General strike 1935 Peckham pioneer health 1958 Notting Hill Riots 1937 BBC broadcast
centre football matches
1928 Representation of the people act – 1939 Evacuation began 1957 Wolfenden Report Published 1939 Great North road
women over 21 (equal rights) opened
1929 Labour Macdonald – flapper election 1939 Emergency medical 1959 Obscene Publications Act 1940 Creation of the
Aug services created ministry of food
1929 Wall Street Crash 1940 Food rationing 1960 Lady Chatterley Trial 1944 Housing &
Oct introduced temporary
accommodation act
1931 National Government – height of 1942 Beveridge report 1961 Contraceptive Pill Introduced 1946 New town's act
depression For Married Woman
1931 Means test 1944 Government white 1962 Commonwealth Immigration 1946 Bread rationing
paper on Heath Act introduced
1935 Macdonald resigns, Baldwin PM 1944 Butler Education act 1963 John Profumo Resignation 1951 Opening of the
festival of Britain
1936 Abdication 1946 National insurance act 1965 Race Relations Act 1953 Coronation 8
million viewers
1937 Chamberlain PM Conservative 1946 Industrial injuries act 1965 National Viewers And 1959 M1 motorway
Listeners Association opened
Founded
1940 Wartime Coalition, Churchill led 1946 family allowances came 1967 Sexual Offences Act 1963 Beaching report
into effect published
1945 Attlee Labour landslide 146 majority 1948 NHS created 1968 ‘Rivers Of Blood’ Speech By 1963 80,000 Slums in
Enoch Powell Manchester
1946 Nationalisation of major industries 1959 Mental Health Act 1968 Dagenham Sewing 1964 Mods and Rockers
Machinists vandalise seaside
1951 Conservative Churchill 1959 Crowther report 1968 Race Relations Act 1966 Housing charity
shelter founded
1955 Eden Conservative PM 1962 Macmillan's hospital 1968 Commonwealth Immigration 1965 Full employment
plan Act
1956 Suez Crisis 1963 Newsom report 1969 Divorce Reform Act 1966 World Cup final
1957 Harold Macmillan Conservative Jan, 1963 Robbins report 1970 Equal Pay Act 1967 Radio One first
July ‘Never had it so good’ speech broadcast
1963 Profumo scandal, Douglas Home 1965 The Crosland circular 1970 The Female Eunuch By 1967 7.5 million below
Conservative PM Germaine Greer Published poverty line
1964 Labour Harold Wilson 1967 Abortion act 1971 Immigration Act 1970 First Glastonbury
1970 Conservative Edward Heath 1970 National Insurance act 1973 First Rape Crisis Centre 1972 Sports council of
Opened Great Britain
established
1973 OPEC oil crisis, Miner strike 1971 First students enrolled 1974 National Women's Aid 1981 13 Million travelled
in the Open University Federation Established abroad - cheap
1974 Heath 3 day working week 1973 NHS reorganisation act 1975 Sex Discrimination Act
1976 Callaghan Labour 1975 Child benefits act 1976 Race Relations Act
1978- Winter of discontent 1976 Education act 1976 Domestic violence and
9 matrimonial proceedings act
1979 Thatcher conservative
e
1918 Representation of the people act – 1918 Education act 1919 Sex Disqualification Act 1922 First BBC Radio
men over 21 vote, women over 30 broadcast
(who owned property)
1919 Red Clyde side, Glasgow 1919 Ministry of health 1920 Alien Orders Act 1927 Cinematograph
established films act
1919- Post war Boom followed by slump 1920 Unemployment 1925 Special Restrictions Act 1930 Road traffic act
20 insurance act, 1921 (Coloured and Alien Seamen)
Amended
1922 DGL resigns, replaced by Bonar Law 1926 Hadow Report 1936 BuF march in EastEnd London 1933 Walthamstow
stadium opened
1923 Baldwin Conservative PM 1929 Local Government act 1937 Matrimonial Causes Act 1934 Mersey tunnel
opened
1924 First Labour, Ramsay Macdonald 1931 National economy act 1948 British Nationality Act 1934 Road traffic act
Jan -
Oct
1924 Conservative Baldwin 1934 Unemployment act 1948 Arrival of Empire Windrush 1936 First Butlins
1926 General strike 1935 Peckham pioneer health 1958 Notting Hill Riots 1937 BBC broadcast
centre football matches
1928 Representation of the people act – 1939 Evacuation began 1957 Wolfenden Report Published 1939 Great North road
women over 21 (equal rights) opened
1929 Labour Macdonald – flapper election 1939 Emergency medical 1959 Obscene Publications Act 1940 Creation of the
Aug services created ministry of food
1929 Wall Street Crash 1940 Food rationing 1960 Lady Chatterley Trial 1944 Housing &
Oct introduced temporary
accommodation act
1931 National Government – height of 1942 Beveridge report 1961 Contraceptive Pill Introduced 1946 New town's act
depression For Married Woman
1931 Means test 1944 Government white 1962 Commonwealth Immigration 1946 Bread rationing
paper on Heath Act introduced
1935 Macdonald resigns, Baldwin PM 1944 Butler Education act 1963 John Profumo Resignation 1951 Opening of the
festival of Britain
1936 Abdication 1946 National insurance act 1965 Race Relations Act 1953 Coronation 8
million viewers
1937 Chamberlain PM Conservative 1946 Industrial injuries act 1965 National Viewers And 1959 M1 motorway
Listeners Association opened
Founded
1940 Wartime Coalition, Churchill led 1946 family allowances came 1967 Sexual Offences Act 1963 Beaching report
into effect published
1945 Attlee Labour landslide 146 majority 1948 NHS created 1968 ‘Rivers Of Blood’ Speech By 1963 80,000 Slums in
Enoch Powell Manchester
1946 Nationalisation of major industries 1959 Mental Health Act 1968 Dagenham Sewing 1964 Mods and Rockers
Machinists vandalise seaside
1951 Conservative Churchill 1959 Crowther report 1968 Race Relations Act 1966 Housing charity
shelter founded
1955 Eden Conservative PM 1962 Macmillan's hospital 1968 Commonwealth Immigration 1965 Full employment
plan Act
1956 Suez Crisis 1963 Newsom report 1969 Divorce Reform Act 1966 World Cup final
1957 Harold Macmillan Conservative Jan, 1963 Robbins report 1970 Equal Pay Act 1967 Radio One first
July ‘Never had it so good’ speech broadcast
1963 Profumo scandal, Douglas Home 1965 The Crosland circular 1970 The Female Eunuch By 1967 7.5 million below
Conservative PM Germaine Greer Published poverty line
1964 Labour Harold Wilson 1967 Abortion act 1971 Immigration Act 1970 First Glastonbury
1970 Conservative Edward Heath 1970 National Insurance act 1973 First Rape Crisis Centre 1972 Sports council of
Opened Great Britain
established
1973 OPEC oil crisis, Miner strike 1971 First students enrolled 1974 National Women's Aid 1981 13 Million travelled
in the Open University Federation Established abroad - cheap
1974 Heath 3 day working week 1973 NHS reorganisation act 1975 Sex Discrimination Act
1976 Callaghan Labour 1975 Child benefits act 1976 Race Relations Act
1978- Winter of discontent 1976 Education act 1976 Domestic violence and
9 matrimonial proceedings act
1979 Thatcher conservative
