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The ‘Swinging Sixties’ and ‘Stuttering Seventies’

Rob Quinn compares the confidence, consumerism and cultural change in the UK in the 1960s with the economic difficulties and discontent of the 1970s

Source A Festival of the Flower Children at Woburn Abbey, 1967

The 1960s in the UK has been seen by many people as a time in which the British people gained a lot more personal freedom. For example:

■ The contraceptive pill was made available free to all women on the NHS in 1967.

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