The 1970s, pronounced "the Nineteen Seventies", was a decade that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979...In the Western world, social progressive values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and political and economic liberty of women, continued to grow... The hippie culture, which started in the latter half of the 1960s, waned by the early 1970s and faded towards the middle part of the decade, which involved opposition to the Vietnam War, opposition to nuclear weapons, the advocacy of world peace, and hostility to the authority of government and big business.. The environmentalist movement began to increase dramatically in this period...

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The Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II marked the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other Commonwealth realms. It was celebrated with large-scale parties and parades throughout the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth throughout 1977, culminating in June with the official "Jubilee Days," held to coincide with the Queen's Official Birthday.. The anniversary date itself was commemorated in church services across the land on 6 February 1977, and continued throughout the month. In March, preparations started for large parties in every major city of the United Kingdom, as well as for smaller ones for countless individual streets throughout the country...

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Tarzan loses his hearing after a bomb blast, and is hunted through the jungle by the ruthless Colonel...

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Shortages



A long queue forms outside the Holborn Bakery, in Lambs Conduit Street, London, to wait for the next delivery of bread during the industrial dispute

Blackouts

Women in the office of a duvet manufacturing firm use quilts to keep themselves warm while they work


3 day week
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1974: Miners' strike comes to an end
British coal workers have called off a four-week strike following a 35% pay offer from the new Labour government in what is being seen as a resounding victory for the miners.

Around 260,000 miners have accepted weekly pay rises ranging from £6.71 to £16.31. The offer is worth more than double the figure on offer under Edward Heath's government.

The 16-week dispute, which has seen coal production come to a complete standstill in the past month, finally ended just 48 hours after Mr Heath's Conservative party was voted out of power.

The album entered the UK charts on 22 October 1977, where it stayed for 5 weeks, hitting a peak of number 28...The 18m dish antenna was transferred from the Fleurs Observatory (Mills Cross) in 1963. Mounted on rails and powered by a tractor engine to allow the distance between it and the main dish to be easily varied, it was used as an interferometer with the main dish, and as a transmit uplink antenna in the Apollo program. It has been abandoned since the early 1980s...The receiving cabin is located at the focus of the parabolic dish, supported by three struts 27 metres above the dish...

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The Sweeney


The Professionals


I, Claudius


Colditz


The Old Grey Whistle Test

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, more commonly known simply as Swap Shop, was a UK children's television programme. It was broadcast on Saturday mornings on BBC1 for 146 episodes in six series between 1976 and 1982. It was ground-breaking in many ways: by being live, sometimes up to three hours in length, and using the phone-in format extensively for the first time on TV...



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New York Dolls - Jet Boy (OGWT 1973)

The 1970 film with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff is the first colour version of the novel, and gained acceptance over the years though it was initially poorly received.. The character of Hindley is portrayed much more sympathetically, and his story-arc is altered.. It also subtly suggests that Heathcliff may be Cathy's illegitimate half-brother...Wuthering Heights is the eponymous farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors where the story unfolds.. Its core theme is the enduring love between the heroine, Catherine Earnshaw, and her father's adopted son, Heathcliff and how it eventually destroys their lives and the lives of those around them...

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Roxy Music - (OGWT 1972)


I had a huge argument with my old man during this.
He was banging on about the "state of them" while I was trying to hear wtf they were doing.
We were still arguing a good 30mins after they'd finished.

In the deserts of Oman in the 1970s, British forces were engaged in a secret war for the Sultan’s Army. During the fighting, a local sheikh lost four of his sons and, in accordance with custom, he was required to avenge his sons’ deaths.. He hired a ruthless group of assassins called ‘The Clinic’ to track down and kill those responsible... In a job spread over many years, the Clinic found four ex-SAS men who served in Dhofar and orchestrated their deaths to look like tragic accidents. Meanwhile a covert group, calling themselves ‘The Feather Men’ and charged with protecting former SAS members, needed to find out who the next targets would be and try to prevent their deaths...

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Revolution
On 4 November 1979 revolutionary students stormed the United States embassy in Tehran taking dozens of US staff hostage.

Thousands of other protesters pressed around the compound, responding to a call by the country's new leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, to attack US and Israeli interests.

Of the 90 people in the compound, six Americans managed to escape to other embassies. Other non-US citizens were released. But 66 were captured, including three seized at the Foreign Ministry.

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