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Modern Literature Time ChartA chart showing the publication dates of works of literature in the context of important historical, social, and cultural events |
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1960 |
A selection of publicationsW H Auden: Homage to Clio |
Historic and political eventsUSA: Start of sit-in movement, black college students insist on service at segregated lunch counter. |
Social historyUK: Macmillan's 'wind of change' speech about African nationalism. CND and anti-Apartheid demonstrations. Lady Chatterley trial. Foundation of Royal Shakespeare Company. European influence: Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros. Popular music: The Beatles performing in Hamburg. Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho. Ken Russell, Sons and Lovers. |
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1961 |
Edward Albee: The American Dream |
USA: John F Kennedy, Democrat, becomes President. |
UK: Beyond the Fringe revue, and Private Eye magazine begin. Contraceptive pill on sale. 'Ban the bomb' demonstrations. Science: Yuri Gagarin first man in space. Art: Beginnings of Pop Art, David Hockney, Peter Blake, Allen Jones. Popular music: Bob Dylan performing in New York. Cinema: Alain Resnais, L'Année Dernière à Marienbad. François Truffaut Jules et Jim. |
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1962 |
Edward Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
UK: Commonwealth immigrants act. End of National service. |
UK: That Was The Week That Was launched. USA: Death of Marilyn Monroe. Technology: John Glenn first American to orbit Earth. First communications satellite; Telstar. Art: Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. Popular music: Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the Wind. Cinema: John Schlesinger, A Kind of Loving. David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia. Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Tony Richardson, A Taste of Honey. |
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1963 |
Kingsley Amis: One Fat Englishman |
UK: Alec Douglas-Home becomes Prime Minister. |
UK: Profumo affair. Great train robbery. CND demonstrations. USA: Timothy Leary expelled from Harvard for experimenting with psychedelic drugs. Science: First kidney transplant. Popular music: Beatles, Please Please Me album - 'Beatlemania'. Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds. First James Bond film: Dr. No. |
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1964 |
Chinua Achebe: Arrow of God |
UK: Labour government under Harold Wilson. |
UK: Start of pirate radio stations. Art: 'OP' art - geometric designs which give illusion of movement. Popular music: Beatles perform in USA. Rise of The Rolling Stones. Cinema: Stanley Kubrick, Doctor Strangelove. The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. |
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1965 |
Edward Bond: Saved |
USA: Step-up in bombing of Vietnam, troops sent in. Martin Luther King leads further civil rights marches. |
UK: Death of Churchill. Beatles awarded MBE. Miniskirts appear in Mary Quant's boutique in King's Road. Post Office Tower opened. Gas discovered in North Sea. USA: Allen Ginsberg coins term Flower Power at Anti-war rally. Technology: First space walk by astronaut. Popular music: The Beach Boys, California Girls. The Rolling Stones, Satisfaction. |
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1966 |
Chinua Achebe: A Man of the People |
USA: Further race riots. |
UK: 'Swinging London', Carnaby Street fashions, hippies. England wins World Cup. Aberfan disaster. Technology: First space docking. First moon landing. Art and popular music: Velvet Underground perform multi-media shows with Andy Warhol. Bob Dylan introduces electric guitars and back-up band. Cinema: Michael Caine in Alfie. David Lean, Dr. Zhivago. Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Rublev. |
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1967 |
Angela Carter: The Magic Toyshop |
UK: UK leaves Aden, independence for South Yemen. |
UK: Abortion legalised, homosexuality decriminalised. Flower Power festival. Oz magazine launched. Rolling Stones on drugs charges. USA: Demonstrations against Vietnam war. Science: First heart transplant. Warnings of 'greenhouse effect'. Technology: First microwave oven. Classical music: Stockhausen, Anthems. |
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1968 |
Alan Bennett: Forty Years On |
USA: Martin Luther King assassinated. |
UK: Capital punishment abolished. Race Relations Bill. Enoch Powell's Birmingham speech. Violent ant-Vietnam war demonstration in Grosvenor Square. Theatre censorship abolished. |
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1969 |
W H Auden: City without Walls |
USA: Millions in anti-Vietnam war protests. Richard Milhous Nixon, Republican, becomes President, promises withdrawal from Vietnam. |
UK: Free rock concerts in Hyde Park. First Isle of Wight festival. Miners' strike. USA: Start of gay rights movement. Start of internet. Woodstock festival. Murder of Sharon Tate. Technology: Astronauts walk on the moon. Human egg fertilised in test tube. First flight of Concorde. Cinema: Easy Rider. Women in Love. If. |
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