The 1970s in the United Kingdom by Nathan SDM https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s The crisis en-us 2018-01-27 08:42:03 UTC 2025-11-28 16:06:15 UTC hello@padlet.com The hippies nathan_soaresdemelo https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225272746 Hippie, also spelled hippy, member, during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream American life.The movement originated on college campuses in the United States, although it spread to other countries, including Canada and Britain.The name derived from “hip,” a term applied to the Beats of the 1950s, such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who were generally considered to be the precursors of hippies. Folk and rock music were an integral part of hippie culture.]]> 2018-01-27 09:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225272746 Disco nathan_soaresdemelo https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225272778 In 1974 there were an estimated 25,000 mobile discos and 40,000 professional disc jockeys in the United Kingdom. The disco DJ was central to the ritual of 1970's dance culture, but the dancing crowd was no less important, and it was the combination of these two elements that created the conditions for the dance floor dynamic. The typicals instruments are the electric guitar, the bass guitar, the keyboard/synthesizer, the percussions (drums, drum machine, percussion instrument) and sometimes other instruments like a string section or a horn section.
But the disco is more than a music style, it's fashion.  With disco, we dare polka-dots, stripes, superpositions, sequins, color combinations,...
]]> 2018-01-27 09:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225272778 Rock nathan_soaresdemelo https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225272795 In the 1970s, a lot of subgenres of the british rock are created. You have for example the glam rock whose the most iconic singer is David Bowie. You have also the punk rock (1974-1976).  London welcome a lot of music styles and became the vanguard of a new musical and cultural movement, blending simple aggressive sounds and lyrics with clothing styles and a variety of anti-authoritarian ideologies.]]> 2018-01-27 09:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225272795 Entertainement nathan_soaresdemelo https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225272821 The films :
-Clockwork orange (1971)
-Sunday bloody sunday (1971)
-Monty Python : life of Brian (1979)
-Alien : the 8th passenger (1979)
-Superman (1978)
The series :
-Z-Cars (1962-1978)
-Some mothers do'ave'em (1973-1978)
-Doctor Who (since 1963)
-Regan (1975-1978)
-Steptoe and son (1962-1974)
]]> 2018-01-27 09:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225272821 Folk music nathan_soaresdemelo https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225272847 Perhaps the finest individual work in the genre was from artists early 1970s artists like Nick Drake, Tim Buckley and John Martyn, but these can also be considered the first among the British ‘folk troubadours’ or ‘singer-songwriters’, individual performers who remained largely acoustic, but who relied mostly on their own individual compositions. The most successful of these was Ralph McTell, whose ‘Streets of London’ reached number 2 in the UK Single Charts in 1974, and whose music is clearly folk, but without and much reliance on tradition, virtuosity, or much evidence of attempts at fusion with other genres.]]> 2018-01-27 09:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225272847 nathan_soaresdemelo https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225314118 2018-01-27 18:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225314118 nathan_soaresdemelo https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225314125 2018-01-27 18:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225314125 Politics and economics nathan_soaresdemelo https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225363299 In the 1970s, there are two big events in the United Kingdom's politic. 
The first event affect the North Ireland. Edward Heath, the prime minister, is confronted with this question. The first attacks break out between the protestants and the catholics (Bloody Sunday, 1972). In 1973, he succeed in doing the United Kingdom go into the EEC, but he have to face up to the syndicates and he is forced to resign.
The second event is the Winter of Discontent (1978-1979). During which there were widespread strikes by public sector syndicates demanding larger pay rises, following the ongoing pay caps of the Labor Party government led by James Callaghan against Trades Union Congress opposition to control inflation, during the coldest winter for 16 years.
The 1970s crisis have allowed Margaret Thatcher to be more and more important. In 1975, she became the leader of the Opposition, and she finished  Prime Minister on 4 May 1979. 
The 1970s have also been affect by the crisis (1970s recession). It was a period of economic stagnation wich putting an end to the overall Post-World War II economic expansion. It differed from many previous recessions by being a stagflation, where high unemployement and high inflation existed simultaneously.
]]> 2018-01-28 10:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225363299 Margaret Thatcher nathan_soaresdemelo https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225536967 2018-01-29 09:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nathan_soaresdemelo/1970s/wish/225536967