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Taste of the Sixties

Taste of the Sixties. History Year 8. Images of the Sixties.

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Taste of the Sixties

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  1. Taste of the Sixties History Year 8

  2. Images of the Sixties George Best (1946-2005) was regarded as the greatest player ever in British football. He was signed by Manchester United in 1961, helping them win two First Division titles (1965 and 1967) and the European Cup in 1968. Throughout his football career he notched up 178 goals in 466 games.

  3. Have you seen her recently?(the one on the right?) Twiggy only modelled for four years, but that was enough to secure her position as the face of the 1960s and the fashion icon for a generation.

  4. Mary Quant was one of the originators of the 'mod' or 'Chelsea' look of the 1960s that helped make London the new centre of fashion. Along with miniskirts, she gave the world vinyl boots; dresses with striking geometric patterns and the wet look - achieved by tightly fitted vinyl clothing for a young and avant-garde clientele.

  5. Miniskirts reached the 'height' of their popularity in 1967, by which point every teenage girl in Britain – or at least those with the legs for it – owned one of these thigh skimming creations.

  6. Martin Luther King, the famous leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, a political activist and a Baptist minister, was the youngest man ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The most famous speech of the decade was made on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on 28th August 1963 He was assassinated on 4th April 1968

  7. I Have a Dream • I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. • I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." • I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. • I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. • I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. • I have a dream today. • He was assassinated on 4th April 1968

  8. The Great Train Robbery – masterminded by Ronnie Biggs and a 15-strong gang – saw the Royal Mail's Glasgow to London train held up and relieved of £2.3 million in £1, £5 and £10 notes

  9. Andy Warhol's name is synonymous with Pop Art. In the sixties he painted daily objects such as Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles. His screen print of Marilyn Monroe is perhaps his most famous work.

  10. July 20 1969 Neil Armstrong landed the lunar module Eagle on the surface of the moon. During the launch, Armstrong's heart reached a top rate of 110 beats per minute.

  11. One of the darker moments of the 1960s saw the erection of the Berlin Wall, an 'iron curtain' which was to separate East and West Germany for 28 years.

  12. Old Blue Eyes By the end of the 1960s, Frank 'Old Blue Eyes' Sinatra had spent 1,311 weeks in the US album charts. His career spanned seven decades, but it was his contribution to music and cinema in the 1960s for which he is most revered. Ocean's 11, the film that would become the definitive on-screen outing for The Rat Pack, was the ninth most successful film of 1960.

  13. Jimi Hendrix insisted on being the final performer at the Woodstock music festival of 1969. He was scheduled to perform on the final Sunday at midnight but didn't take to the stage until nine o'clock on Monday morning, where he played to a dwindling audience for two hours.

  14. Concorde successfully completed its first supersonic flight on 1 October 1969, born out of separate French and British projects which joined forces in 1962.

  15. Formed in London in 1962 by Brian Jones, and eventually led by the song writing partnership of singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones were born. And still go on, and on, and on…

  16. The Vietnam War shook America's military self-confidence to the core. More than 58,000 U.S. soldiers died fighting a war in which their seemingly all-powerful nation suffered a humiliating defeat.

  17. The popular president John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on 22 November 1963. Major events during his presidency include the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, early events of the Vietnam War, and the American Civil Rights Movement.

  18. Homework • If you can: • Find someone who is over 55 and ask them about ‘The Swinging Sixties’ • What do they remember? • What was it like for them? • Or alternatively: • Find someone you know who is as old as possible and ask them to tell you about their childhood – in particular about things that are different from the way they are today • Write a short (-ish) account of what you found out

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