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1900Homes for Indian nannies
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1904Sherlock Holmes
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1908Christabel Pankhurst
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1910Suffragette Sophia Duleep Singh
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1912Captain Scott's Diary
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1914Suffragettes protest
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1914Indians on the Western Front
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1915World War I
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1917Wilfred Owen: WWI poetry
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1917Russian Revolution
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1925Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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1926The General Strike
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1929The Great Depression
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1931Gandhi in Britain
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1934British Union of Fascists
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1938Appeasement
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1938Kristallnacht
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1939Wanted poster for Hitler
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1939World War II ultimatum letter
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1939The Keys
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1940Dunkirk evacuation
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1941Dig for Victory
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1943Make Do and Mend
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1944Auschwitz survivor
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1945The Atom Bomb
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1947Independence and Partition
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1948Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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1948NHS established
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1948Immigration from India
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1948Windrush: post-war immigration
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1955Chinese restaurants
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1956Middle Eastern food
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1957Wolfenden Report
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1959Paul Robeson's Othello
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1960Man lands on the moon
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1962Cuban Missile Crisis
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1963Assassination of Kennedy
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1964Beatles arrive in the USA
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1965Mods and Rockers
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1966England win the World Cup
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1967Robert Kennedy Assassinated
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1968Dr. Martin Luther King
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1968Student protests, Paris
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1970Women's liberation
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1970Punk fanzine
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1971The Oz trial
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1972The Black Panther
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1974President Nixon resigns
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1976The Sex Pistols
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1981Charles and Diana marry
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1989Tiananmen Square massacre
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1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
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1990Release of Nelson Mandela
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1998Peace declared: Northern Ireland
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1998The Belfast Agreement
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Intro
Where were you when you heard the news? People alive in the 1960s are still asked this question about the day US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He was after all one of the most powerful men in the world. The event shook the world. The president had been shot whilst driving through Dallas in a convertible limousine with his beautiful wife, Jackie. Kennedy was a hugely popular president - charismatic, forward-looking and strong-minded - and his image became a benchmark for every subsequent presidential candidate.
Just two days after the shooting, Lee Harvey Oswald, the man believed to be JFK's murderer, was himself killed. A Dallas nightclub owner had shot Oswald, claiming he 'did it for Jackie'. There are many conspiracy theories questioning whether Oswald was really was the killer, including rumours of gangsters, the Russians, even the CIA being involved.
Image Copyright: John Frost Newspaper Archive
Shelfmark: British Library Newspaper Archive
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