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?
  • Reginald Maudling
  • R. A. Butler
  • Edward Heath
  • Robert Carr
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?
  • Mods and Rockers
  • Teds and Toffs
  • Punks and Squares
  • Straights and Gays
In 1972 a magazine was first brought out as an unashamedly feminist publication. It closed in What was its name?
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Woman's Own
  • Spare Rib
  • Feminism Today
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?
  • By the Protestant majority against the Roman Catholic minority
  • By employers against employees
  • By landowners against tenants
  • By men against women
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?
  • The Peace Pledge Union
  • The Committee of 100
  • The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
  • The Peace People
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?
  • Carmen Callil
  • Germaine Greer
  • Joan Littlewood
  • Linda Rothstadt
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?
  • Royal Holloway College
  • University College (UCL)
  • The LSE
  • King's College
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"?
  • Forcible repatriation
  • Voluntary repatriation
  • Forcible enclosure in ghettos
  • Redistribution around the country to avoid concentrations of immigrants and their dependants in a few places
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?
  • Manchester Square
  • Grosvenor Square
  • Hanover Square
  • Trafalgar Square
In 1970 a group of militant feminists disrupted a televised beauty contest in London. What was the name of the competition?
  • Miss Great Britain
  • Miss UK
  • Miss England
  • Miss World
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