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In 1968 disorder broke out in Northern Ireland, beginning a thirty year period of the "Troubles". The movement for civil rights in the Province highlighted discrimination there as a burning issue. Which was the most significant kind of discrimination complained about in Northern Ireland? |
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By the Protestant majority against the Roman Catholic minority |
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By employers against employees |
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By landowners against tenants |
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By men against women |
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Demonstrations against the United States' policy in Vietnam became more frequent, and were often directed against the US embassy. In which Central London square were these demonstrations concentrated? |
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Manchester Square |
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Grosvenor Square |
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Hanover Square |
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Trafalgar Square |
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Every Easter from the late 1950s a march took place from the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, near Reading, to London. It was organised by a pressure group, calling for the unilateral renunciation of nuclear armaments. What was the name of this organisation? |
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The Peace Pledge Union |
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The Committee of 100 |
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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament |
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The Peace People |
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During the 1960s and 1970s violence erupted in various seaside resorts between rival gangs of young people. What labels did the two sides give themselves? |
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Mods and Rockers |
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Teds and Toffs |
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Punks and Squares |
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Straights and Gays |
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In April 1968 Enoch Powell, a minister in the Shadow Cabinet, made an inflammatory speech in Birmingham about immigration into Britain from the "New Commonwealth". What "remedy" did he propose for what he perceived as a "problem"? |
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Forcible repatriation |
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Voluntary repatriation |
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Forcible enclosure in ghettos |
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Redistribution around the country to avoid concentrations of immigrants and their dependants in a few places |
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A wave of student unrest gripped certain UK universities in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Which college, a constituent part of London University, founded in 1895 to concentrate on the social sciences, politics and government, suffered serious disruption between 1966 and 1969? |
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Royal Holloway College |
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University College (UCL) |
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The LSE |
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King's College |
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In 1975 Margaret Thatcher was elected Leader of the Conservative Party, the first woman to achieve this office. Whom did she defeat in this election restricted to Tory MPs? |
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Reginald Maudling |
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R. A. Butler |
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Edward Heath |
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Robert Carr |
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In 1970 an Australian-born feminist writer published "the Female Eunuch", which was an instant success and became a key text of the women's movement. Who was she? |
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Carmen Callil |
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Germaine Greer |
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Joan Littlewood |
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Linda Rothstadt |
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In 1970 a group of militant feminists disrupted a televised beauty contest in London. What was the name of the competition? |
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Miss Great Britain |
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Miss UK |
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Miss England |
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Miss World |
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In 1972 a magazine was first brought out as an unashamedly feminist publication. It closed in 1993. What was its name? |
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Cosmopolitan |
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Woman's Own |
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Spare Rib |
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Feminism Today |
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