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The Specials were a mixed race band from Coventry in England playing their take on Jamaican SKA music and doing a lot to cement Britains racial diversity.
West Bromwich Albion, under the management of Ron Atkinson, were the first top-flight football team to field black players.
The discovery of North Sea Oil in the early 1970s was a huge boon to the exchequer but Scotland wanted to keep this windfall for itself.
Scottish Independence was now the talk of the land and it would divide opinion for many years.
And in an age of cut-throat global competition, this spelled disaster for British industry and Social Collapse for Great Britain.
General Sir Walter Walker was so horrified by the domination of trade unions, that he feared a complete social collapse of the British democracy.
The Sex Discrimination Act of 1976 was intended to bring equal rights to women. There followed years of campaigning to make this a reality.
But, for many women, equal treatment didn’t just mean drinks at the bar after work. Genuine equality was a question of cold hard economics.
When the Sex Pistols brought punk rock to Caerphilly, the god-fearing locals were outraged. But to loud-mouthed yobs would fall out of fashion - in time.
The Queen’s Silver Jubilee would see peace and common-sense prevail and the country would party and anarchy forgotten.
A Royal Wedding is always a time of national fervour and celebration. Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips had a memorable day in 1973.
But not all the pomp and circumstance in the world could hide the stark truth of Britain’s fall from grace. And even on the biggest day of the year, the chilling realities of globalisation were silently seeping in.
Richard Branson began producing The Student magazine but failed to make money. Mail-Order Records were a huge success and Virgin Records was born.
At the age of just 23, Richard Branson had made himself a millionaire. In five years, he’d gone from a basement squat to this grand manor.
European travel had been a pastime for the well-heeled, but in the 1970s the package holiday opened Europe to all for a week in the Spanish Sun.
Of course, there was a fair bit of social snobbery in all this. Until the 70s, Europe had been a playground for the tiny elite of the rich and well-connected. But this new British tourist was less David Niven, and more David Essex.
Furious at the West’s support for Israel, the Arab oil nations announced an eye-watering price rise of 70%. This was the 1970s Oil Crisis and it hurt.
After decades of endless growth, most people had never known anything like it. With household essentials soaring in price and inflation hitting double figures, in the autumn of 1973, ordinary families struggled.
The industrial unrest of the Winter of Discontent was the largest and most effective since the General Strike of 1926. Mrs Thatcher was waiting to strike.
Mrs Thatcher’s victory was a landmark in our political history. But it wasn’t just a reaction to the disastrous Winter of Discontent, it marked the culmination of a decade of tremendous change.
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