1960's Contemporary Framework

The Swinging 60's

  • In 1940's WW2 happened which influenced the 60's in terms of rationing and poverty
  • Baths once a week
  • Poverty
  • Children in the 1960s were malnourished
  • 1950s, USA invented the term 'teenager', before, from 4-21 you were a child
  • Anti-war campaign
  • Any women over 21 could have a prescription for the pill
  • In 1968, men wouldn't go to prison for being gay
  • Hippies, protesters, do drugs
  • Mods and Rockers, youth groups many did drugs
  • The 60s in the UK had three main youth groups, hippies, mods and rockers
  • Hippies - Druggies, 'free love', protestors, anti-war campaign, long hair
  • Mods - bowl cuts, dressing well, getting into fights, rode scooters
  • Rockers - listened to rock music, rode motorbikes, carries switchblades, dressed like rockers 
  • 1960s, Britain was multicultural but, interracial relationships were frowned upon
  • The Vietnam war created LSD which led to the hippie culture of taking drugs.
  • POP art

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