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- 1960s British Pop Culture - The music, the groups, the stars, the films, the tv, the images, the events, the trivia of Britain in the sixties
www.sixtiespop.com
- A Celebration of a Tonic to the Nation - Comprehensive resource from the Festival of Britain Society which describes the 1951 exhibition. Includes links to other "worlds fairs" and current millennium events.
www.packer34.freeserve.co.uk
- Backdate - The 60s and 70s - Backdate is a glance back in time to the 1960s and 1970s in Britain. The Sixties and Seventies were a period of massive change and social revolution in the UK.
www.backdate.co.uk
- Britain's Small Wars - Containing information on wars after 1945.
www.britains-smallwars.com
- Britannia's International Relations - Great Britain and the World - 1895-1999; an extended chronology.
www.stoessel.ch/hei/hpi/Great_Britain_World_1895_1999.htm
- Nice Nostalgia Archive - Photos and information on cultural greats and not-so-greats from the UK in the 1970s and 1980s.
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/3278
- Paddle Steamer Picture Gallery - Information and pictures on British Excursion Steamers
freespace.virgin.net/tom.lee
- Paddle Steamer Ryde Website - Documenting the history of the paddle steamer Ryde (Queen) and providing a place for people to share their memories and their support for her future.
www.psryde.co.uk
- Past to Present Times - A personal journey from world war two to the new millennium looking at past times and society today in the UK
www.decadespast.co.uk
- Pornography in Britain; Industries, Markets, Audiences, 1954-1993. - New e-Book on the post-war history of the British pornography industries, from 50s backstreets to 90s porn barons. The 1st chapter can be downloaded as a PDF and read for free.
www.anigma-nm.com/pornbook.html
- Projects in modern history - A collection of academic papers (or summaries thereof) dealing with the history of the north Atlantic archipelago (the British isles), especially with national identity.
users.aber.ac.uk/gtp
- Rent Strikes - "Research into the history of the tenants movement. It features two local studies of rents strikes at key stages of the formation of the English tenants movement."
freespace.virgin.net/labwise.history6
- Sterling Times - British nostalgia. A patriotic collection of sounds, sights and trivia, mainly from the 20th century.
www.sterlingtimes.co.uk
- The Battle of Cable Street - Story of the historic street fight that occurred in 1936 when Oswald Mosely and his British Union of Fascists attempted to march through the heart of London's Jewish community. Includes interviews with participants.
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/redweb/hcable.htm
- YourMemories.co.uk - Reminisce with nostalgic memories of the 1900s in all parts of the UK. Your personal recollections of childhood, school, workplace and holidays.
www.yourmemories.co.uk
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