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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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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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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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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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1967Robert Kennedy Assassinated
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1968Dr. Martin Luther King
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1968Student protests, Paris
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1968
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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
Through the 1970s and 1980s, South Africa was under intense international pressure to stop apartheid - the enforced social separation of black citizens from the ruling white minority. Charismatic black South African Nelson Mandela was a figurehead of the campaign, even though he had been in prison since 1962, jailed for his activities against the system.
On 11 February 1990, following relaxation of apartheid by South African president FW de Klerk, and the lifting of the ban on the black rights party the ANC (African National Congress), Mandela was released. Within hours he was on a balcony at Cape Town's City Hall, addressing a rally of 50,000 people. In England, television programmes were interrupted to broadcast his speech live.
Mandela became president of the ANC in 1991, and shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with de Klerk. In 1994 he was elected president of South Africa, stepping down in 1999.
Image Copyright: John Frost Newspapers
Shelfmark: British Library Newspaper Archive
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