MARY EVANS PICTURE LIBRARY
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ello, and welcome to the first edition of the new Mary Evans magazine, ME and You, designed to bring the best of Mary Evans to you. What better way to share the amazing diversity and sheer range of pictures in the library.
ISSUE 1, JANUARY 2010
Published by the Mary Evans Picture Library 59 Tranquil Vale, London SE3 0BS T: 020 8318 0034 www.maryevans.com E: pictures@maryevans.com Nameplate image ClassicStock/Mary Evans
All the features have been put together by Mary Evans staff, tapping into their specialist knowledge and their love of history. We hope you find Me & You an absorbing and entertaining read and a chance to immerse yourself in the past, which for us proves constantly fascinating, stimulating and inspirational. Enjoy!
The Sixties turn 50
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1960s model in psychedelic jumpsuit (image 10286299)
In Britain, rationing had ended only in 1954 and in the early 1960s many homes had no indoor bathroom or lavatory. Coal fires were often the only source of heat, a tin bath placed before them the rudimentary washing facilities.Town planners etched out a vision of Britain as a modern high-rise society, and local authorities began to implement
slum clearance policies that would see 1.3 million homes demolished nationwide between 1955 and 1975. Shirley Baker's photographs of Manchester and Salford during the 1960s recorded the human story of these soon-to-be-demolished communities: old ladies sitting on doorsteps in a row of condemned houses, men with handcarts searching for refuse to be recycled, children playing amongst rubble and abandoned cars. Internationally, events that were to have profound and lasting effects occurred with remarkable rapidity. In February 1960, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's speech to the South African Parliament about a "wind of change" blowing Girls at Hampstead Fair, 1961 (image through the Heath 10190613) continent faced a stony reception. A subsequent protest at Sharpeville organised by the Pan Africanist Congress in which 70 black Africans were killed by white police led to the United
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ard as it may be to believe, it is now half a century since the beginning of that great decade of change, the 1960s. For many it is most immediately remembered as the "Swinging Sixties", with its mini-skirts and mop-tops, an explosion of Carnaby Street fashions, Twiggy and the Beatles. But the decade which began in the shadow of the post-war world of the 1950s had its dark side, along with the fun and colour of its music and fashion.