Architecture

Articles

The era of radical concrete

20th Century architecture: Is it the end of our 'concrete jungles'?

Buildings and architecture

1960s architecture: A History of the Elephant & Castle (Part Two)

Videos

1960s Blocks of Flats - Was it progress?

Living in New Town Britain, 1960s

Utopian Visions

Why I Hate the Sixties: Brutalism

Education

Articles

Schooldays in the 1950s and 1960s (Historic UK)

Comprehensive schools: the history

UK higher education since Robbins – A timeline


Videos

BBC Britain on Film - Series 2 Episode 2 Children - Look at Life

Fashion

Articles

1960s fashion: The style icons and designers that shaped the swinging decade (Marie Claire magazine)

60s fashion and style

Fashion in the 1960s

Fashion in 1960s London

Videos

Look at Life - IN gear, 1967 (Rank films)

BBC Britain on Film - Episode 4 Fashion - Look at Life

Mary (Export) Quant

History Of Fashion - Episode 6: The Swinging '60s

Films

Articles

British Film in the 1960s (British Film Institute)

British Sixties Cinema

Videos

Football

Articles

Did one man change modern football worldwide?

Good old days were not so good for footballers

Fifty-five years to the day: £20 maximum wage cap abolished by Football League clubs

Soccer slavery

George Best: Soccer's ultimate playboy?

Videos

George Best talks about being the first football superstar

George Best Swinging Sixties

The home

Articles

1950s and 1960s Houses

12 Sixties Living Rooms

1960s Interior Design

Home Decor of the 1960s

Videos

The Home Front (BBC documentary based on Rank 'Look at Life' films)

Ideal Home Exhibition - Technicolor (1963)

Glasgow's Mossheight flats in the 1960s

1960s Blocks of Flats - Was it progress?

Medicine

Articles

Best Medical Inventions of the 1960s (Blog)

The Pharmaceutical Century - 1960s

Videos

Transplant Museum

The peace movement

Articles

Scotland's Radical Youth

Thousands protest against H-bomb

Videos

Vietnam Demonstrations (1968)

Demonstrations In London (1968)

War And Society - Part 3 - Protest For Peace (1960-1969)

The Pill

Articles

How the contraceptive pill changed Britain (BBC)

The Pill (History Channel)

The Pill: woman's best friend? (Daily Telegraph newspaper)

Videos

The Pill - A New Women

Pop art

Articles

Pop art

Pop art

The Influence of Art History on Modern Design – Pop Art

Videos

Pop Art

When Britain Went Pop -- British Pop Art: The Early Years

Pop music

Articles

Music in the 1960s – Introduction

60s music

Top 100 Hits from 1960 to 1969

The 1960s

Videos

Changes in music between the 1950s and 1960s

History of Rock & Roll - The 1960s (Pt. 1)

Racism

Articles

Making a new life in 1960s Britain

England in 1966

Britain's racist election

Videos

Immigration in the 60s

Post-war Britain: immigration and race relations

Rivers of Blood

The Space Race

Articles

The Space Race

10 tech breakthroughs to thank the space race for

How Space Exploration Affects Culture & Society

Videos

The Space Race

The Impact of the Space Race

Teenage culture

Articles

My Generation - the rise of the teenager

Youth and pop music

Videos

Swinging Britain

The Teenagers

why did lives change for teenagers in the 1960s

Television

Articles

1960s Television – Introduction

TV Ownership

The 1960s - Television

UK TV Ratings – 1960s

Videos

TV and Cinema in early 1960s


Transport

Articles

Scotland in the Sixties - Transport

1960s Transport

1960s motoring milestones

Cars we loved in the 1960s

Air travel in the 60s

The 1960s:rationalisation

Videos

BBC Britain on Film - Series 2 Episode 5 Transport - Look at Life

Look At Life - Living with Cars 1964

Railways in Britain, 1960's

Women's lib

Articles

The 1950s Housewife

The rising women's liberation movement in the radical 1960s

Timeline of the Women's Liberation Movement - 1960s

Videos

A Woman's Place (BBC documentary based on Rank 'Look at Life' films)

Women's Movement 1960s-70s