Welcome to the Woman's History Timeline. Click on a decade above to open a list of key events. Click on a key event to find out more about what happened. Click on LISTEN icons to hear interviews and special archive content about the period.
Victorian Times: for background on women's history during the Victorian era visit BBC Women's History and you can test your knowledge with the women's rights game.
Listen again to the Balloon debate that launched the Woman's Hour Time line and hear why the availability of contraception won the title of most influental event to impact on the lives of women.
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I love this photo because of the sheer essence of the 60's which it conveys - not the glamorous side of the magazines with models plastered in makeup and ultra short skirts.
We were wearing what was fashionable but also what we felt comfortable in. How hairstyles and fashions in clothes and shoes come around!
It was a time of some turmoil at Birmingham. The Senate Building (behind us in the picture), was occupied by students in a classic 60's sit in. Being science students we took no notice of such disruptive nonsense and continued with our work. Such was the real flavour of the sixties. No drugs, little drink, cautious sex (as sex meant pregnancy) and so little money for anything other than basic necessities.
Tim Curry was at Birmingham along with Mike Hartley Brewer at this time and I do believe they had a somewhat better time than the rest of us! Use it or lose it!
