Significant events in the time line for a play

[essbeehindyou]

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the wars

1963 - death of JFK

Abdication crisis
Coronation of Eliz II & Everest climbed same year

Is this British or World events?

General strike 1920something(4?) and Depression
Votes for Women
Abdication
WW1 and WW2(Hiroshima)
Decline of British Empire
EU
End of Cold War and Decline of Communism in Europe
Space travel - Moon Landing, Space Shuttle
Development of TV/Radio

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vote for women then

moon landing
decimalisation

Decimalisation 1972ish
Margaret Thatcher

If she lives anywhere near the east coast, then the 1953 floods.

We didn't Start the Fire

A bit American biased, but very interesting

First woman prime minister 1979

Growth of feminism
Swinging sixties - Mods and Rockers
Beatles

Hurricane - 1987?
House price crash
3 day week 1972?
Faulklands war

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So she's born in 1915, is that right?
Presumably the significant events should be things that would make an impression on her at her particular age? So -

babyhood, First World War - confusing comings & goings & people being suddenly happy & sad
age 3/4, Spanish flu epidemic
age 12/13, first radio broadcasts by BBC
age 18, German Jewish refugees in Britain
(her) twenties, Second World War - contrast with faint memories of First??
thirties, austerity - you have to read this extraordinary book
forties, Harold McMillan, "You never had it so good" and hints of sexual revolution (& probably feeling a bit left out of the latter)
fifties, Virago Press & feeling back in the swim
sixties, Greenham Common ...

I think I am channelling Posy Simmonds here.